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Episode 13 – Civil War
“My brother Ashur-danin-apli, in the time of Shalmaneser, his father, acted wickedly, bringing about sedition, rebellion, and wicked plotting, caused…
13 years, 11 months ago
Episode 12 – Legacies of East and West
The Olmec of Mesoamerica and the Chavin of Peru laid strong cultural foundations that would influence regional civilizations down through the first E…
13 years, 11 months ago
Episode 11 – The Rise of Assyria
“I slew 14,000 of their warriors with the sword. Like Adad, I rained destruction on them. I scattered their corpses far and wide, and covered the fac…
14 years ago
Episode 10 – Picking Up The Pieces
At the dawn of the first millennium BC, the collapse of the great Near Eastern powers allowed the cultures of Canaan to flourish. While the Phoenici…
14 years, 1 month ago
Episode 9 – The Other 99 Percent
“Regarding what you wrote me before: ‘Enemy ships were observed at sea!’ If it is true that ships were observed, reinforce yourself. Where are you…
14 years, 2 months ago
Episode 8 – Look Upon My Works
“…And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. …
14 years, 2 months ago
Episode 7 – Between Lions and Men
“As there are no pacts of faith between lions and men,
nor do wolves and lambs have spirit in kind,…nor for us two
will there be oaths;…
Recollect yo…
14 years, 3 months ago
Episode 6 – The New Kingdoms
After expelling the Hyksos, the rulers of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty led their New Kingdom in an unprecedented drive for territorial expansion. In Syria a…
14 years, 3 months ago
Episode 5 – Blind-sided
“I was asleep upon my bed, having become weary…like a snake of the necropolis. As I came to, I awoke to fighting, and found that it was an attack of …
14 years, 3 months ago
Episode 4 – The Pyramid Builders
“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
The power of Egypt’s Old Kingdom rulers was reflected…
14 years, 4 months ago