The Bell Beaker Phenomenon and the Rise of the Bronze Age
Around 4,500 years ago, bell-shaped ceramic drinking vessels called "beakers" begin showing up with the dead in tombs all over western Europe. Everywhere from Portugal to Sicily to Scotland to Slovaki...
10 Juni 20210s
Indo-European, Migration, and the Corded Ware Culture
Five thousand years ago, small groups of herders began making their way from the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppe into the hills and forests of northern Europe. They moved west, intermarrying wi...
3 Juni 20210s
Cuneiform Literature, Medicine, and Mental Health: Interview with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a writing system: cuneiform, used for everything from heroic epic to receipts and medical texts, and firs...
27 Maj 20210s
The Yamnaya Culture and the Proto-Indo-European Migrations
More than 5,000 years ago, a group of wandering herders on the Eurasian steppes - the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European - began to move outward from their homeland. With their wagons, horses, a...
20 Maj 20210s
Achilles, Gilgamesh, and Epic Poetry: Interview with Professor Michael Clarke
What do Achilles and Gilgamesh, two of the most renowned literary figures of the ancient world, have in common? A great deal more than you might expect. I talked to Professor Michael Clarke of the Nat...
13 Maj 20210s
The Indus Valley Civilization
Egypt and Mesopotamia are the most famous civilizations of the ancient world, but at the same time in South Asia - today's Pakistan and India - an even larger and more populous society came into being...
6 Maj 20210s
Ancient South Asia
South Asia - encompassing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - is one of the cradles of human civilization, and today it's home to one in every four people in the world. But who were the early inhabitant...
29 Apr 20210s
Bananas, Civilization, and Ancient Farming in New Guinea: Interview with Professor Tim Denham
Professor Tim Denham is one of the world's leading experts on Kuk Swamp, the most important archaeological site for understanding the origins of agriculture in New Guinea. He explains how we can use c...
22 Apr 20210s
