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New episodes come out Thursdays for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.
Digital Hammurabi is the creative outlet for two Assyriologists, Megan Lewis and Joshua Bowen. Driven by a passion for the ancient Near East and the belief that history is both important and relevant to modern life, Megan and Josh aim to break out of the ivory tower of academia and bring ancient Mesopotamia to the world! This podcast brings academic scholarship and interviews with researchers to your brain (via your ears) in an easily-understood format, so you can enjoy fascinating content w ...
HeBANE (Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East), a Digital Hammurabi production, is an engaging podcast focused on presenting information on the Hebrew Bible and its intersection with the Ancient Near East. Join Dr. Joshua Bowen as he dives into this fascinating world, seeking to understand the context of the Hebrew Bible and those who wrote it.This podcast aims to engage with the latest and greatest in academic research, bringing consensus scholarship directly to you in an easily-understood for ...
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The purpose of this podcast is to provide the larger context to the situation in the Middle East. The history will be provided through audio recordings of my late father, Dr. David Neiman –an expert on the history of the ancient near east and the relationship between the Church and the Jews. He based his theses on historical records, linguistics and a deep understanding of the Bible and its origins.
How did four highly decorated American soldiers become prisoners of war in their own country? This series re-examines the US Department of Justice’s controversial prosecution following a gun battle in Baghdad between Iraqi insurgents and military contractors. Why did the DOJ hold multiple trials for over a decade? Was the DOJ seeking justice? Or playing politics?
A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.
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The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Nick Barksdale
Hello fellow amateur historians and ancient/medieval scholars!!! My name is Nick Barksdale and like you, I have a passion for ancient and medieval history and so, I created this Podcast / YouTube Channel "The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages." The focus of this podcast is history plain and simple and all of the facts and theories that come with it. From academic lectures and to interviews, I want to talk about what we love and hopefully even touch on subjects you haven't even thought a ...
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The Beginnings of Civilization in the Andes: The Mounds of Norte Chico
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The arid shoreline between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific seems like an unlikely place to host one of the world's earliest complex societies. But more than 5,000 years ago, the people of the Norte Chico Culture built cities, temples, and monuments that laid the foundation for thousands of years of Andean civilization. Patrick's book is now ava…
Learn about the famous dystopian novel.By EnglishClub.com
Mesoamerica is one of only a few places in the world where "civilization" - states, writing, cities, monumental building, and so on - emerged independently. The first society to do all this were the enigmatic Olmecs more than 3,000 years ago. Today the Olmecs are known mostly for their colossal carved stone heads, but they were the pioneers of a di…
Learn about the mystery of possible buried treasure in Virginia.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the mystery of possible buried treasure in Virginia.By EnglishClub.com
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Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen
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Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory. Professor Kristian Kristiansen has worked with these new methods since the very beginning, and combines them with a deep grounding in both traditional archaeology and big-picture thinking about what it all means. …
Learn about the objects that scientists sometimes call "failed stars".By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the objects that scientists sometimes call "failed stars".By EnglishClub.com
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The Steppes of Central Asia in the Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Michael Frachetti
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The Eurasian steppe is central to grasping the past 5,000 years of human history, and in the past couple of decades, new tools of analysis have transformed our understanding of the place and its importance. Professor Michael Frachetti has developed and applied a whole series of innovative approaches to understanding the people of the Bronze Age ste…
Learn about the day that celebrates Mexico's victory in a historic battle.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the day that celebrates Mexico's victory in a historic battle.By EnglishClub.com
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Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move
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Four thousand years ago, the sprawling cities of the Indus Valley Civilization dominated much of South Asia; a millennium after that, however, the cities were in ruins, and new migrants ultimately deriving their ancestry from the Eurasian steppe had established themselves throughout much of the region. These new arrivals have become known as Indo-A…
Learn about the famous women's tennis champion.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the famous women's tennis champion.By EnglishClub.com
More than a billion people around the world speak a language of the Indo-Iranian family today. These languages all trace their origin to a group of innovative people living on the steppes of southern Russia more than 4000 years ago, people who inhabited a surprisingly far-flung, complex, and mutable world. Patrick's book is now available! Get The V…
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Listen&Learn: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Listen&Learn: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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What was the Indus Valley Civilization? Interview with Dr. Adam Green
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The Indus Valley Civilization doesn’t get much attention compared to Mesopotamia or Egypt, but it covered an area of a million square kilometers, was home to hundreds of thousands or millions of people and a unified culture, and lasted for the better part of a millennium. More than that, the Indus Civilization doesn’t seem to fit the models we have…
Learn about the thousands of trees that share the same roots.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the thousands of trees that share the same roots.By EnglishClub.com
Learn how the body keeps track of time.By EnglishClub.com
Learn how the body keeps track of time.By EnglishClub.com
Language is fundamental to how people experience the world, but how can we know what languages people spoke in the distant past? By 1200 BC, the linguistic outlines of the world were becoming a bit clearer, thanks to an explosion in written texts. Follow along as we go on a historical linguistic tour of the globe around 1200 BC, from the first Bant…
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Kathryn de Luna on Africa, Bantu, and Historical Linguistics
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About one in every five people alive on the planet today speaks a language belonging to the Bantu family, and Bantu-speaking peoples have shaped the history of Africa in profound ways. But how did they expand from their original homeland, and how can we tell? Professor Kathryn de Luna joins me to talk about historical linguistics, archaeology, and …
Learn about some of the earliest written laws.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about some of the earliest written laws.By EnglishClub.com
The state - a centralized administration that exerts control over a territory and can coerce the people living there - is one of the driving forces of the last several thousand years of history. But when and where did states appear, and why? And can we really call all of the various forms of political control that emerged around the world “states?”…
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Learn about the famous actress and inventor.By EnglishClub.com
Ancient DNA and new archaeological work have changed our understanding of many different parts of the global past, but nowhere more so than Africa. Professor Mary Prendergast sits on the very cutting edge of both fields, having worked on both the largest-scale studies of ancient DNA in Africa and some of the most fascinating and innovative work bei…
Learn about the famous German fairy tales.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the famous German fairy tales.By EnglishClub.com
The most striking environmental shift on the planet in the Holocene epoch was the greening of the Sahara. For thousands of years, the now-deserts of northern Africa were a mosaic of savannahs, river valleys, and shallow lakes. This unique environment produced the ways of life that eventually brought pastoralism and food production, as well as a var…
Learn about a fascinating unsolved mystery.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about a fascinating unsolved mystery.By EnglishClub.com
Africa is rightly known as the “Cradle of Humanity,” because that’s where the most recent wave of modern human migrants originated and so much of our species’ evolutionary history took place there. But the reality is far more complex. Africa is a big place, and its relationship with our species spans hundreds of thousands of years, different enviro…
Learn about planets outside of our solar system.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about planets outside of our solar system.By EnglishClub.com
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Who Were the Human Sacrifices in Shang China? Interview with Dr. Christina Cheung
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Human sacrifice is an ugly but essential topic in understanding the Shang Dynasty, but we know very little about precisely who these people were, where they came from, and what their lives were like prior to their deaths. Dr. Christina Cheung is a bioarchaeologist specializing in the study of stable isotopes, and she has produced some of the first …
Learn the history of the life-saving drug for people with diabetes.By EnglishClub.com
Learn the history of the life-saving drug for people with diabetes.By EnglishClub.com
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The Genetic Origins of Indigenous Americans: Interview with Professor Jennifer Raff
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Professor Jennifer Raff, a longtime friend of the show, returns to discuss her work on the genetic ancestry of America’s Indigenous peoples. We talk about Beringia, waves of migration, the troublesome relationship between science and Indigenous peoples, and her fantastic new book, Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, which is available now. G…
Learn about the author of the award-winning novel Beloved.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the author of the award-winning novel Beloved.By EnglishClub.com
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The Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bones, and the Roots of Chinese History
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More than 3,000 years ago in China’s Central Plains, the Shang Dynasty crossed the threshold from prehistory to history. For the first time in China, we have access to the written word, in the form of the famous inscribed oracle bones. Thanks to that writing, we can peer inside their society and understand its logic - the logic of violence, authori…
Learn about the ancient book on military strategy.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the ancient book on military strategy.By EnglishClub.com
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The Complicated World of the Bronze Age Near East: Interview with Aaron Burke
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The reality of the Bronze Age Near East was much messier and harder to understand than a straightforward story of city-states, empires, and kings. Different ethnolinguistic groups, lifestyles, dynasties of would-be rulers, migrating mercenaries, and ephemeral states were all essential pieces of the fabric of that world. Professor Aaron Burke of UCL…
Learn about the constructed language with over 100,000 speakers.By EnglishClub.com
Learn about the constructed language with over 100,000 speakers.By EnglishClub.com
