History of the World podcast

Vol 2 Ep 4 - First Babylonian Dynasty ( Hammurabi )

1900 - 1595 BCE - Semitic speakers from the west had established their own kingdoms throughout Mesopotamia. The Babylonians became the most powerful of the first half of the second millennium BCE esp...

17 Feb 201939min

Vol 2 Ep 3 - Ur

3000 - 2000 BCE - The fascinating rise and fall of this iconic Sumerian city-state and a look at the incredible work of Sir Leonard Woolley.

10 Feb 201952min

Vol 2 Ep 2 - The Akkadian Empire ( Sargon of Akkad )

2300 - 2083 BCE - Sargon the Great conquered Sumer and extended what some refer to as the first Empire. This is the story of the earliest known civilised Semitic speakers.

3 Feb 201943min

Vol 2 Ep 1 - Early Dynastic Mesopotamia ( Sumerians )

3000 - 2340 BCE - The first known civilisation of Mesopotamia. Separating fact from myth within the first cuneiform writings, and the Sumerian conquest and decline.

27 Jan 201946min

Unscripted (8) ( Lascaux )

We take a brief look at the unignorable prehistoric cave art of Lascaux and why it could have been created.

20 Jan 201916min

Unscripted (7) ( Göbekli Tepe )

We take a brief but closer look at some of the diverse theories relating to the construction and meaning of Göbekli Tepe.

13 Jan 201924min

Unscripted (6)

History of the World podcast welcomes in the New Year with some of your valued messages, an update on the performance of the podcast, and most importantly of all, an announcement about the start of Vo...

6 Jan 201917min