The Roots of Israel and Judah
The roots of ancient Judaism, and the Abrahamic religions, are to be found in the arid hills and fertile valleys of Canaan more than 3,000 years ago. That was where the kingdoms of Israel and Judah ca...
20 Jul 20230s
Headhunting, Migration, and Ancient DNA in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Ian Armit
Professor Ian Armit has ranged both widely and deeply over the study of European prehistory, examining everything from headhunting practices among the ancient Celts to migration in the Bronze and Iron...
13 Jul 20230s
Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Thanks to cutting-edge tools, archaeologists can study the lives of past people in ways that were never before possible. Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury applies those tools to children and mothers...
6 Jul 20230s
The Last Kings of Rome and the Foundation of the Roman Republic
What really happened in the last years of the 6th century BC? The Romans believed that this was the time when they overthrew their last king, Tarquinius Superbus, and founded the Republic, but how muc...
29 Jun 20230s
The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
The Hallstatt Culture defines the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in Continental Europe. It was a time of long-distance connections between rich and powerful elites, migration,...
22 Jun 20230s
Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts
While the Mediterranean world was experiencing its Bronze Age Collapse and the beginnings of the Iron Age, continental Europe north of the Alps was in the midst of its own fundamental transformation. ...
15 Jun 20230s
The Urbanization of Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Francesca Fulminante
How and why did so many people come to Rome in the Archaic Period, and how did it become a city? Dr. Francesca Fulminante is an expert on the archaeology of ancient Italy, particularly the process of ...
8 Jun 20230s
The Orientalizing Mediterranean
Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the most recognizable of which was a particular style of art that we call "Orientalizing." But this distinc...
1 Jun 20230s
