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Li Liu on the Rise of States in China
Season 4 Episode 74
States have defined China from the very beginning of its recorded history more than 3,000 years ago, but how did they come into being? Professor Li L…
4 years, 9 months ago
Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce
Season 4 Episode 73
The late Bronze Age world of the Near East was an incredibly rich and complex place, full of long-distance trade, the exchange of ideas, bickering ki…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Rise of the Late Bronze Age Empires: The Hittites, Mittani, and Assyrians
Season 4 Episode 72
Viewed from the perspective of international trade, political complexity, and written culture, the late Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Near East …
4 years, 10 months ago
Hammurabi’s World - The Near East in the Age of Fragmentation
Season 4 Episode 71
If we know the name of an ancient Near Eastern ruler, it’s probably that of Hammurabi, thanks to his famous Code. But Hammurabi was just one ruler in…
4 years, 10 months ago
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 be…
4 years, 10 months 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…
4 years, 10 months 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…
4 years, 11 months 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 …
4 years, 11 months 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…
4 years, 11 months 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:…
4 years, 11 months ago