The Oldest Games
Play is older than humanity, but among the ancient Mesopotamians, a handful of games are attested throughout the ancient period, from all the way to the beginning with the Royal Game of Ur, to various...
3 Nov 202145min
Elamite 4 - Elamite Religion
This week we take a look at who the Elamites were at home, or at least how they were up in heavens. The Elamites gods are a tough subject to get deep into, but today we take a look at who the Elamites...
20 Okt 202137min
Elamite 3 - The Grand Regents of Elam
Elam did not occupy Sumer after conquering Ur and imprisoning King Ibbi-Sin. Instead, the Kings of Shimashki consolidated power in Elamite territory and carried on relationships with the independent c...
6 Okt 202133min
Elamite 2 - Elamite Renaissances
In the last years of the Akkadian Empire, Elam managed to seize its independence. The first fully independent King of Elam was Puzur-Inshushinak, who went on to rule Elam’s first real empire. He ruled...
22 Sep 202125min
Elamite 1 - Back to the Beginning
The Sumerians did not develop writing and urbanization in a vacuum. To their east, the land of Elam developed both at almost the exact same time. From the start of written history, the great cities an...
8 Sep 202123min
OS 96 - Fall of the Hittite Empire
In 1200 BCE, the Hittite Empire fell, its capitol of Hattusa was abandoned and its final king, Suppuliliuma II, was probably dead. The circumstances leading up to that fall, and the reign of Tudhaliya...
1 Sep 202158min
OS 95 - Hattusili Secures His Legacy
Western Anatolia is the biggest player in the fall of the Hittite Empire, and those movements begin now, with the later years of Hattusili III. Additionally, the chronic instability that used to affli...
25 Aug 202134min
OS 94 - Hattusili the Peace Maker
This week the Hittite empire hits its high point, as we look at Hattusili III and Ramesses II's so-called Eternal Treaty, the peace treaty which would help define the climate of the bronze age collaps...
18 Aug 202136min
