Tides of History

Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr

Episodes

Total: 319

In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however,

Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within j

Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the

Every historian I know has a secret dream of writing historical fiction, but few ever do it. Dan Jon

Greece's Dark Age

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After the Bronze Age Collapse, Greece changed dramatically. The palaces were gone, long-distance tra

Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less th

The Iron Age Mediterranean's new density of connections between people and places was about more tha

What happened after the Bronze Age Collapse and the end of the palaces that had defined Mycenaean Gr

Prior to the Iron Age, the Mediterranean had already been a highway moving around goods, people, and

When the end came for the Assyrian Empire, it came quickly. Former enemies pounced on the weakened s

On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, Americ

The Assyrian Empire had a well-deserved reputation for brutality, but brutality alone doesn't explai

The Neo-Assyrian Empire has been almost forgotten in comparison to the other massive states of the a

The sheer amount of time separating the establishment of the first cities in the ancient Near East,

Welcome to the Iron Age, and to a new season of Tides of History! The first millennium BC saw the em

After two and a half years and 126 episodes, Season 4 of Tides is coming to an end. Patrick recaps w

I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of great people during this season, and Professor Shane Mi

"Collapse" is an evocative and powerful term, but what does it really mean? And how can we use it to

More than 3,000 years ago, two armies met in a titanic Bronze Age battle along a river in northern G

What ties the long history of ancient Egypt together into a meaningful whole? Professor Toby Wilkins