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Carthage, Syracuse, and the Battle for Sicily
Apr 11, 2024By 480 BC, the same year Xerxes and the Persians descended on Greece, Sicily had become a battleground for the rising powers of the Central Mediterranean: Carthage, on one side, and the Greek colony o...
The Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Professor Cameron Petrie
Apr 04, 2024Archaeology is changing quickly, and few people are playing more of a direct role in the wave of fascinating new studies exploring the Indus Valley Civilization, South Asia, and Iran than Professor Ca...
The Rise of Carthage
Mar 28, 2024Carthage is known mostly as Rome's great rival, but it was a fascinating and meaningful Mediterranean civilization in its own right. Today, we track the rise of Carthage from its foundation as a Phoen...
The Mediterranean World in 500 BC
Mar 21, 2024After our long sojourn in Central, East, and South Asia, it's time to return to a Mediterranean on the cusp of enormous changes. Around 500 BC, Rome was shedding its kings, Carthage was about to becom...
Why Do Ordinary People Do Terrible Things? Daniele Bolelli and Patrick Discuss
Mar 14, 2024History is littered with terrible deeds and atrocities: conquest, genocide, mass enslavement, forced displacement, crimes of all sorts. Why do people agree to participate in these actions? Daniele Bol...
The Buddha and His World
Mar 07, 2024The Buddha - born Siddartha Gautama - is one of the most impactful people in human history, founder of a religious tradition that has shaped the world for the past 2,500 years. But the Buddha was also...
Climate Change and the Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Dr. Alena Giesche
Feb 29, 2024The world's climate isn't stable, but how can we understand climate change in the past? Dr. Alena Giesche is an expert on ancient climates, and she explains both how the field of paleoclimate studies ...
The Rigveda and the Dawn of the Iron Age in South Asia
Feb 22, 2024The Rigveda, a collection of hymns written in the Sanskrit language more than 3,000 years ago, is the oldest religious text in the Hindu tradition. It's also an incredible window onto life at the dawn...
The Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization
Feb 15, 2024The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the most enigmatic, sophisticated, and compelling ancient societies. For seven centuries, it thrived in the western portions of South Asia, building enormous mu...
The Rise of China's Warring States
Feb 08, 2024The Warring States period in China (c. 481-221 BC) was an era of mass-mobilization warfare unlike any other the world had seen to that point. Armies of hundreds of thousands of men fought on an increa...