OS 77 - Idrimi's Adventure and Tudhaliya's Invasion
We return to Anatolia, where our tale remains just as poorly documented and fast moving as it is in Babylon, thought there is light at the end of the tunnel this week as we finally get into the transi...
21 Apr 202135min
OS 76 - The Amarna Mailbag
The Amarna letters are famous because nowhere else in bronze age history do we have a cache of documents quite like it. Thirteen letters from Kadashman-Enlil, and later his son Burna-Buriash, addresse...
14 Apr 202137min
OS 75 - Building Babylonia
The growth of Kassite Babylonia, also called Karduniash, continues apace. Just like last week, Kassite Babylonia is very poorly documented, and thus we are going to cover all the way from Pharaoh Thut...
7 Apr 202135min
OS 74 - A New Dawn for Babylon
Babylon is reborn! Following the decline and sack of Babylon, the entire region was devastated for decades. However, even in these ashes lay the seeds of a new growth, the Kassite Dynasty, which will ...
31 Mars 202136min
OS 73 - Corruption in Nuzi
True crime! Corruption in city hall! A gang of thugs terrorizing a town! One of the most interesting finds in the town of Nuzi is a series of court documents which contain testimony about a large numb...
24 Mars 202142min
Bonus 4 - Akitu New Year Special
Happy Mesopotamian New Year! Akitu was celebrated at the start of the year from Sumerian times until the end of Babylonian civilization, and naturally the details changed significantly over the course...
17 Mars 202137min
OS72 - Lawyers of Nuzi
Today we have a very real discussion about some very real people, hearing from the Hurrians in their own words by looking at the goings on in a town called Nuzi. When two groups disagree about who is ...
10 Mars 202133min
OS 71 - Hurrian Wisdom
The Hurrian Song of Release is an odd text. Part wisdom, part legend, the best we can guess is that it was a set of rituals, cultural memories, and advice to accompany what may have been a monumental ...
3 Mars 202134min
