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Mike Parker Pearson on Stonehenge and British Prehistory
Season 4 Episode 70
Archaeology has come a long way since the first crude excavations at Stonehenge more than a century ago. Our guest, Mike Parker Pearson, spent the better part of a decade excavating in the vicinity o…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Stonehenge
Season 4 Episode 69
The societies of the European Bronze Age lacked writing, but their illiteracy shouldn’t fool us: These were rich and sophisticated civilizations that existed in a time of deep and fundamental transfo…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Bronze Age Europe
Season 4 Episode 68
The societies of the European Bronze Age lacked writing, but their illiteracy shouldn’t fool us: These were rich and sophisticated civilizations that existed in a time of deep and fundamental transfo…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Writing a New History of the Middle Ages: Interview with Dan Jones on Powers and Thrones
Season 4 Episode 67
Friend of the Show, TV presenter, author extraordinaire, and historian Dan Jones returns to Tides to discuss his new book, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages. It’s a wonderful book …
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
The Hyksos - Foreign Kings in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Dr. Anna-Latifa Mourad
Season 4 Episode 66
Ancient Egypt didn’t exist in isolation from the world around it. Trade goods, ideas, and especially people flowed in and out over the millennia, but never more so than during the Second Intermediate…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Ancient Nubia
Season 4 Episode 65
Just to the south of ancient Egypt, a civilization we think we know well, was a deeply connected but unique world that existed along the Middle Nile: Nubia, or Kush, which produced its own distinctiv…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Interview with Shane Miller and Jessi Halligan on the White Sands footprints
Season 4 Episode 64
The discovery of 21,000-23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico is one of the most exciting developments in the study of the deep past in recent years. But do thes…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Egypt’s Middle Kingdom
Season 4 Episode 63
The Middle Kingdom, beginning around 2000 BC, was the second of ancient Egypt’s classical ages. Powerful pharaohs ruled from the cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean, building enormous monument…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush: Interview with Dr. Geoff Emberling
Season 4 Episode 62
Located to the south of Egypt, in today’s Sudan, ancient Nubia had a complicated relationship with the old state of the Nile, and scholars have traditionally understood it through the shadow of its m…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Old Kingdom Egypt
Season 4 Episode 61
When we think of Ancient Egypt, we think of the pyramids: vast, eternal monuments to the glory of long-dead pharaohs. But we shouldn’t take them for granted: They belong to a specific place and time,…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago