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Season 1: Neolithic domestications & social transformations.Season 2: The Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia: the first cities & the invention of writing.Currently airing: Season 3, on Early Dynastic Sumer!
Alex hosts The Drumbeat Forever After, a history show with 42 episodes published.
Please donate to Aseel in Gaza here: https://chuffed.org/project/128660-help-aseel-her-family-escape-gaza Guest: Annika We've never been more back! We start off this new miniseries on Presargonic Lagash with a series of
Please donate to Aseel in Gaza here: https://chuffed.org/project/128660-help-aseel-her-family-escape-gaza Guest: Sheila We're so back! First, a Sumerian poem about Gilgamesh which mentions his trip to see Ziusudra (also
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Guest: Stacy First, a story about Enlil, the Sumerian god of kingship, and his future wife Ninlil; he sees her bathing in a canal in their hometown of Nippur, and the narrative isn't especially concerned how consensual t
Guests: Lily, Annika First: a literary debate between two women (much of its meaning hidden beneath several layers of abstraction). It tells us a lot about public expectations of Sumerian housewives, but one could argue
(Sorry I disappeared for three months! I burned myself out working on rewriting old episodes and had to focus on other stuff for a couple months. I'm back in the saddle now, with episodes written up to the end of the Sar
I interviewed Karrar Sabah Al Ramahi, PhD student at Baghdad University, about his research on the city of Eridu! Furqan Salam helped with the translation. We talk about its earliest settlement during the Ubaid period, i
Guest: Lily First: the world's oldest known wisdom literature, in the form of a series of proverbs delivered from the eponymous Shuruppak (king of Shuruppak) to his son Zi-ud-sura (alias Utnapishtim, the Noah figure from
Guest: Annika First, a classic sitcom setup: Ningishzida plans to sail a boat to hell with his friend (an ill-intentioned demon), but his sister Ama-shilama wants to tag along! Then, we visit the construction site of Mar
(Re-recorded as of December 3, 2022) Guest: Victoria First: Having insulted Ereshkigal (queen of the Sumerian underworld) by offending her messenger's honor at a dinner party in heaven, Nergal (god of war, plague, and de
Guests: Kelten, James First, Gilgamesh ignores the branch of the government standing between him and a unilateral declaration of war on King Aga of Kish, the mightiest kingdom in the Mesopotamian alluvium at the time. In
Guest: James First: To punish Gilgamesh, Inanna sends the massive Bull of Heaven to ravage Unug. But, as it destroys farmland and drinks the rivers dry, Gilgamesh sits idle, drinking beer and listening to music! Then, we
Guest: Lily First, we finally meet Gilgamesh! Cherished in Unug, heroic bearer of a scepter of wide-ranging power, noble glory of the gods, angry bull standing ready for a fight, etc. We read one of two Sumerian poems de
It's the podcast's first interview! I talk to Malath Feadha and Dr. Jaafar Jotheri, two Iraqi archaeologists studying ancient Mesopotamia at Al-Qadisiyah University, about the relationship between the early inhabitants o
New update, as of July 18: Episode 17 is entirely new, and episodes 18-20 are mostly new. I've rearranged the order of episodes 22-26, and I've re-recorded audio for episodes 23-26 that I haven't edited yet. Thanks for y
(Update: I'm still working on re-records. This will eventually be episode 20, the third of three episodes on the Uruk expansion. The myth is partially new audio, but the historical narrative is all new audio & mostly new
(Update: I'm still working on re-records. This will eventually be episode 19, the second of three episodes on the Uruk expansion. The myth is partially new audio, but the historical narrative is all new audio & mostly ne
(Update: I'm still working on re-records. This will eventually be episode 18, the first of three episodes on the Uruk expansion. The myth is mostly old audio, but the historical narrative is all new audio & lots of new c
(Update: I'm still working on re-records. This will eventually be episode 17, followed by three episodes on the Uruk expansion, followed by Metals, Textiles, and four episodes recut from what are now episodes 17, 19, 20,
Guest: Kelten First: Anzu, the mythical bird guarding the mountains at the edge of the world, comes home to find that Lugalbanda has treated his beloved chick with the utmost generosity. In return, he makes several attem
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