Encore: How Latin Became the Romance Languages
How did Latin splinter into the Romance languages? In this episode, we explore how Latin transformed from a single, widely dispersed language into a series - French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Roma...
13 Jan 20220s
The Rise and Fall of China’s First States
China’s late Neolithic period saw the emergence of increasingly powerful groups of elites who buried themselves in lavishly decorated tombs and built palaces and public buildings at the hearts of thei...
6 Jan 20220s
Li Liu on the Rise of States in China
States have defined China from the very beginning of its recorded history more than 3,000 years ago, but how did they come into being? Professor Li Liu of Stanford University is one of the world’s lea...
30 Dec 20210s
Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce
The late Bronze Age world of the Near East was an incredibly rich and complex place, full of long-distance trade, the exchange of ideas, bickering kings, and empires rising and falling. Among those em...
23 Dec 20210s
The Rise of the Late Bronze Age Empires: The Hittites, Mittani, and Assyrians
Viewed from the perspective of international trade, political complexity, and written culture, the late Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Near East marked a high point before the fall. But how did th...
16 Dec 20210s
Hammurabi’s World - The Near East in the Age of Fragmentation
If we know the name of an ancient Near Eastern ruler, it’s probably that of Hammurabi, thanks to his famous Code. But Hammurabi was just one ruler in a time of conflict throughout the region, and the ...
9 Dec 20210s
Mike Parker Pearson on Stonehenge and British Prehistory
Archaeology has come a long way since the first crude excavations at Stonehenge more than a century ago. Our guest, Mike Parker Pearson, spent the better part of a decade excavating in the vicinity of...
2 Dec 20210s
Stonehenge
The societies of the European Bronze Age lacked writing, but their illiteracy shouldn’t fool us: These were rich and sophisticated civilizations that existed in a time of deep and fundamental transfor...
25 Nov 20210s
