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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings in the Ancient Near East: Interview with Professor Amanda Podany
Dec 15, 2022The sheer amount of time separating the establishment of the first cities in the ancient Near East, and the invention of cuneiform writing, from the end of the period that they define is mind-boggling...
From a World of Iron to Classical Empires
Dec 08, 2022Welcome to the Iron Age, and to a new season of Tides of History! The first millennium BC saw the emergence of two huge and enduring empires at either end of Eurasia - Rome and China - but it was also...
Retrospective: Prehistory Season
Dec 01, 2022After two and a half years and 126 episodes, Season 4 of Tides is coming to an end. Patrick recaps what we've learned, how things have changed in a rapidly shifting field, and why the study of prehist...
Revisiting the Ancient Americas with Professor Shane Miller
Nov 24, 2022I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of great people during this season, and Professor Shane Miller of Mississippi State University has been incredibly generous with his time on multiple occasion...
What is "Collapse?" Interview with Professor Guy Middleton
Nov 17, 2022"Collapse" is an evocative and powerful term, but what does it really mean? And how can we use it to help us understand the actual processes and events through which ancient people lived? Professor Gu...
The Battle of the Tollense Valley
Nov 10, 2022More than 3,000 years ago, two armies met in a titanic Bronze Age battle along a river in northern Germany. We don’t know why they fought or who won, but thanks to stunning archaeological discoveries,...
Tutankhamun's Trumpet and the Long, Winding Past of Ancient Egypt: Interview with Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
Nov 03, 2022What ties the long history of ancient Egypt together into a meaningful whole? Professor Toby Wilkinson, one of the most renowned Egyptologists on the planet, visits to talk about the unity of ancient ...
After the Bronze Age Collapse
Oct 27, 2022As dramatic and transformative as collapses are, they're rarely a complete apocalypse. People survived the Bronze Age Collapse, and then they had to wake up in the morning, care for their children, te...
Season 4 Mailbag: Prehistory and Early History
Oct 20, 2022It's mailbag time! Patrick answers a variety of questions about topics covered (and not covered) in this season of Tides, ranging from Svante Pääbo's Nobel Prize in paleogenomics to Indo-European orig...
Empires, Networks, and the Hittites: Interview with Professor Claudia Glatz
Oct 13, 2022What is an empire? It sounds straightforward enough, but figuring out what the term means - much less whether it really helps us understand past political units - is actually pretty complicated. Profe...