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The Emergence of the Etruscans
Apr 27, 2023The Etruscans are often called "mysterious," but we actually know quite a bit about them, from their unique language to their amazing metalwork and impressive cities. But where did the Etruscans come ...
Greek Colonies and Networks in the Iron Age: Interview with Dr. Lieve Donnellan
Apr 20, 2023One of the best ways to understand how the ancient world functioned is to think in terms of networks and interactions between people and places. Dr. Lieve Donnellan of the University of Melbourne is a...
Iron Age Italy
Apr 13, 2023At the beginning of the Iron Age, around 950 BC, Italy was a land of farming villages; just a few centuries later, it was one of the wealthiest and most densely urbanized parts of the Mediterranean wo...
Competition, Tyranny, and the Birth of Ancient Greece
Apr 06, 2023Archaic Greece went through some of the most explosive and rapid transformations of any ancient society, but why? What stands out the most is the intense strand of competition running through every as...
Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean
Mar 30, 2023In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up across across southern Italy and Sicily. These new foundations would become the heart of the Greek wor...
How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data
Mar 23, 2023Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, authors of the new book How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, join Patrick to discuss the history of data, why enumerating thin...
Who Were the Phoenicians? Interview with Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
Mar 16, 2023Despite their obvious importance to understanding the Iron Age and Classical Mediterranean, the Phoenicians remain something of an enigma. Professor Carolina Lopez-Ruiz is one of the world's leading e...
The Roots of Archaic Greece
Mar 09, 2023In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however, it underwent a remarkable transformation. Greece's population exploded, cities came into being, lon...
The Phoenician Mediterranean
Mar 02, 2023Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within just a few decades, they were already present at the far end of the Mediterranean and even further, p...
The Emergence of Phoenicia
Feb 23, 2023Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean that runs from Syria to Egypt. One small part of that coastline, mostly in wh...