The Rigveda and the Dawn of the Iron Age in South Asia
The 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...
22 Helmi 202439min
The Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization
The 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...
15 Helmi 202441min
The Rise of China's Warring States
The 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...
8 Helmi 202438min
Ordinary People in Ancient East Asia: Interview with Professor Kate Pechenkina
Professor Kate Pechenkina is an expert on the bioarchaeology of East Asia, utilizing cutting-edge tools to tell us about the lives and experiences of ordinary people in the distant past: diet, disease...
1 Helmi 202443min
Confucius and His Age
Confucius is one of the most famous and influential thinkers in all of human history, but who was he? What did he believe, and what did he teach? And how did his time and place - the closing years of ...
25 Tammi 202439min
China in the Eastern Zhou: Spring and Autumn
The Spring and Autumn period, lasting from 771 to 481 BC, marked the high point of aristocratic power in ancient China. This was an age of nobility and political fragmentation, as the Zhou Dynasty's p...
18 Tammi 202441min
Venice through the Ages, from Salt-Panners to Maritime Empire to Tourism: Interview with Professor Dennis Romano
Venice's lagoon is an unstable environment, but it has hosted one of the longest-lasting and most stable cities in world history. The history of Venice is many different things: politics on an imperia...
11 Tammi 202448min
The State and the Environmental History of Early China: Interview with Professor Brian Lander
The environment of China has been so thoroughly shaped by human activity that it's difficult to imagine it as a wild landscape, as it was at the end of the last Ice Age. Since then, first agriculture ...
4 Tammi 202448min
