62- Assyrian Curses
Send us Fan Mail When Esarhaddon, the king of Assyria's father was murdered by his brothers, he became a highly paranoid individual and had everyone swear loyalty and risk terrible cruses if they diso...
31 Aug 30min
61 - Sennacherib’s Campaign and the Siege of Lachish
Send us Fan Mail The Assyrian siege of Lachish is one of the best-documented military events in the ancient world, and one of the strangest. Sennacherib dedicated an entire room of his palace to a cit...
18 Jun 31min
60 - The Last Philistine
Send us Fan Mail In 604 BCE, a Philistine king wrote a desperate letter to the pharaoh of Egypt. It was written not in his ancestors' Aegean tongue, but in Aramaic. The letter made it to Egypt. The he...
2 Mai 32min
59 - The Five Lords: How the Philistines Governed a Civilization
Send us Fan Mail Every kingdom in the ancient Near East had a king. The Philistines said no thanks. Instead, they brought something from the Aegean: five cities, five lords, collective rule. Their ru...
23 Apr 40min
58 - Philistine DNA: The Infant, the Swan, and 700 Dogs
Send us Fan Mail In 2013, archaeologists found an infant buried beneath a family's floor. When they extracted DNA from those tiny bones, they found a genetic signature that appeared out of nowhere, a...
14 Apr 33min
57 - Graves of the Sea People
Send us Fan Mail Ever heard of a graveyard where the coffins are shaped like humans—some lifelike, others downright bizarre? In this episode, we dig into the secrets of the Philistines at Beit Shean:...
11 Nov 202532min
56 - Were The Philistines Migrants or Invaders?
Send us Fan Mail The first portrayal of the Philistines can be seen in the reliefs of the Medinet Habu monument. It shows their warriors, but also their women and children on ox-carts. They came to co...
21 Okt 202532min
