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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...
Who Were the Sea Peoples?
Oct 06, 2022When assigning blame for the Bronze Age Collapse, the most common culprits are said to be the Sea Peoples: nomadic raiders and sackers of cities who plied the sea-lanes of the late Bronze Age world an...
The Fall of Mycenaean Greece and the Trojan War
Sep 29, 2022Mycenaean Greece was one of the glittering jewels of the late Bronze Age world, but it fell to pieces in dramatic fashion: burned palaces, abandoned settlements, and the end of a centuries-old politic...
How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray
Sep 22, 2022We're often told that trade was central to the interconnected world of the late Bronze Age, but what were people really trading? Why did trade matter so much? And what happened when that trade disappe...
What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
Sep 15, 2022The term "Bronze Age Collapse" is by now common, but what do we actually mean when we talk about "collapse?" Is it a matter of political reorganization or something rather more drastic? In the case of...