Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
As dramatic and transformative as collapses are, they're rarely a complete apocalypse. People surviv
It's mailbag time! Patrick answers a variety of questions about topics covered (and not covered) in
What is an empire? It sounds straightforward enough, but figuring out what the term means - much les
When assigning blame for the Bronze Age Collapse, the most common culprits are said to be the Sea Pe
Mycenaean Greece was one of the glittering jewels of the late Bronze Age world, but it fell to piece
We're often told that trade was central to the interconnected world of the late Bronze Age, but what
The term "Bronze Age Collapse" is by now common, but what do we actually mean when we talk about "co
The late Bronze Age was a time of powerful empires and intense competition between them. Never befor
What was it like to be a regular person in ancient Egypt? What did people do when they got sick or i
We know the late Bronze Age world eventually collapsed, but what made it a world in the first place?
When we think about ancient Egypt, the vast majority of our attention goes to its elite: pharaohs, q
If we know one thing about the Bronze Age world, we know that it collapsed. But what made it a world
Kings are one of the constants of ancient Egypt's long history. But what, exactly, were kings suppos
Egypt's New Kingdom lasted for more than 400 years. In that time, Egypt changed dramatically, weathe
Most of what we think we know about ancient Egypt is actually things we know about the New Kingdom,
Sea levels rise, hills erode, and rivers change course over decades and centuries, dramatically affe
When we think of the Middle Ages, the first thing that comes to mind is usually knights in shining a
Star Carr, located in the Yorkshire region of northern England, is one of the world's richest archae
Of all the Austronesian-speaking peoples, none have gone further than the Polynesians. Professor Pat
The first wave of migration out of Taiwan brought speakers of Austronesian to the northern reaches o
