79 Folgen

  1. 57. Looking forward to Leiden

    Vom: 15.7.2023
  2. 56. Nicholas Reid: The Big House

    Vom: 29.6.2023
  3. 55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology

    Vom: 29.5.2023
  4. 54. Eckart Frahm: A new history of Assyria, the world's first empire

    Vom: 26.4.2023
  5. 53. Parsa Daneshmand: Consensus decision-making in divination

    Vom: 30.3.2023
  6. 52. Birgül Öğüt: phytoliths in west Asian archaeology

    Vom: 1.3.2023
  7. 51. Ali al-Juboori: Reflections

    Vom: 2.2.2023
  8. 50. Dr Basima Jalil Abed

    Vom: 21.12.2022
  9. 49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines

    Vom: 9.11.2022
  10. 49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines SHORT VERSION

    Vom: 9.11.2022
  11. 48. Amanda Podany: A New History of the Ancient Near East

    Vom: 5.10.2022
  12. 47. Louise Quillien: Textiles from Babylonia

    Vom: 7.9.2022
  13. 46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals

    Vom: 3.8.2022
  14. 45. Victor Klinkenberg: An archaeological approach to tablets

    Vom: 4.7.2022
  15. 44. Sophie Cluzan: Votive statues from Mari

    Vom: 25.5.2022
  16. 43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century

    Vom: 20.4.2022
  17. 42. Julian Edgeworth Reade: Reflections

    Vom: 22.3.2022
  18. 41. Farouk al-Rawi: reflections

    Vom: 9.2.2022
  19. 40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul

    Vom: 15.12.2021
  20. 39. Saana Svärd: Digital Assyriology in Helsinki

    Vom: 1.12.2021

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Thin End of the Wedge explores life in the ancient Middle East. There are many wonderful stories we can tell about those people, their communities, the gritty reality of their lives, their hopes, fears and beliefs. We can do that through the objects they left behind and the cities where they once lived. Our focus is on the cultures that used cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) writing, so mostly on ancient Iraq and nearby regions from about 3000 BC to about 100 AD. Thin End of the Wedge brings you expert insights and the latest research in clear and simple language. What do we know? How do we know anything? And why is what we know always changing? Why is any of this important today? We won’t talk to you like you’re stupid. But you won’t need any special training to understand what we’re talking about. This is an independent production by me as an individual. It is not supported by my employer or any other organisation I am involved with, and the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect theirs.

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