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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 s…
5 years 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 Nil…
5 years 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 tradi…
5 years 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 …
5 years ago
When Did Things Happen in the Ancient World? Interview with Professor Sturt Manning
Season 4 Episode 60
We can’t understand the past without understanding when things happened, because if we can’t place them in some sort of chronological order, we can’t…
5 years ago
Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete
Season 4 Episode 59
The Late Bronze Age was a remarkable time in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. An interconnected world sprang up, tying together the lands…
5 years, 1 month ago
How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon
Season 4 Episode 58
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the whole of human history can be divided into two parts: before the Industrial Revolution, and after. Economist…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Early Aegean Bronze Age and Minoan Crete
Season 4 Episode 57
From mainland Greece to Minoan Crete and the famous city of Troy, what made the Aegean Sea one of the constituent pieces of the Bronze Age world? All…
5 years, 1 month ago
Mike Duncan on the Marquis de Lafayette and His New Book, Hero of Two Worlds
Season 4 Episode 56
Bestselling author and history podcaster extraordinaire Mike Duncan returns to Tides to talk about his new book, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de L…
5 years, 1 month ago
Sargon of Akkad and the World's First Empire
Season 4 Episode 55
More than 4,000 years ago, a ruler came to power in the fractious, war-torn lands of Mesopotamia. He ruled a small state north of the region's ancien…
5 years, 2 months ago