Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
How did Latin splinter into the Romance languages? In this episode, we explore how Latin transformed
China’s late Neolithic period saw the emergence of increasingly powerful groups of elites who buried
States have defined China from the very beginning of its recorded history more than 3,000 years ago,
The late Bronze Age world of the Near East was an incredibly rich and complex place, full of long-di
Viewed from the perspective of international trade, political complexity, and written culture, the l
If we know the name of an ancient Near Eastern ruler, it’s probably that of Hammurabi, thanks to his
Archaeology has come a long way since the first crude excavations at Stonehenge more than a century
The societies of the European Bronze Age lacked writing, but their illiteracy shouldn’t fool us: The
Friend of the Show, TV presenter, author extraordinaire, and historian Dan Jones returns to Tides to
Ancient Egypt didn’t exist in isolation from the world around it. Trade goods, ideas, and especially
Just to the south of ancient Egypt, a civilization we think we know well, was a deeply connected but
The discovery of 21,000-23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico
The Middle Kingdom, beginning around 2000 BC, was the second of ancient Egypt’s classical ages. Powe
Located to the south of Egypt, in today’s Sudan, ancient Nubia had a complicated relationship with t
When we think of Ancient Egypt, we think of the pyramids: vast, eternal monuments to the glory of lo
We can’t understand the past without understanding when things happened, because if we can’t place t
The Late Bronze Age was a remarkable time in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. An interco
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the whole of human history can be divided into two parts: befor
From mainland Greece to Minoan Crete and the famous city of Troy, what made the Aegean Sea one of th
