i just finished re-recorded episodes 1-10 of my podcast on the ancient near east, so there's never been a better time to start from the beginning!

come listen to me read ancient myths with my friends!!

SEASON 1: NEOLITHIC

1: Introduction & Natufian Syro-Palestine, 13000-9600 BCE (Atrahasis)

2: Göbekli Tepe & Early Neolithic cereal domestication, 9600-8000 BCE (Ninurta vs Asag)

3: Early Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia, 9600-7000 BCE (Telipinu)

4: Jericho & Early Neolithic Palestine, 9600-7000 BCE (Joshua, Jesus & Satan)

5: Early Neolithic Iran & livestock domestication, 8200-6500 BCE (Animal proverbs, Enkidu)

6: Çatalhöyük & Late Neolithic Anatolia, 7400-5500 BCE (Nergal & Ereshkigal)

7: Life, death, dinner parties, & the first pottery in Syria, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna, Enki, & Ereshkigal, part 1)

8: Gender, marriage, & property in Late Neolithic Syria, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna & Ereshkigal, part 2)

9: Late Neolithic daily life: farming, herding, cooking, weaving, & brewing, 7000-5300 BCE (Inanna & Dumuzi, part 3)

10: Late Neolithic Iran & the Susiana plain, 6800-4700 BCE (Sumerian proverbs)

SEASON 2: CHALCOLITHIC

17: Tell Brak: Mesopotamia’s first city, 4500-3600 BCE (Antigone & the death of Enkidu)

18: The fall of Tell Brak & the Middle Uruk expansion, 3800-3400 BCE (Enmerkar vs Ensuhkeshdanna)

19: Late Uruk Iran & Uruk influence on Egypt, 3400-3100 BCE (Enmerkar & the lord of Aratta, part 1)

20: Late Uruk expansion outside Iran, 3400-3100 BCE (Enmerkar & the lord of Aratta, part 2)

22: Uruk environment & state formation, 3800-3100 BCE (Hoe vs Plow)

23: City-states in Late Uruk Mesopotamia, 3400-3100 BCE (Hymns to Inanna)

24: The invention of writing & the Late Uruk industrial revolution, 3400-3100 BCE (Babel & Nisaba)

26: Feasting in Late Uruk Mesopotamia, 3400-3100 BCE (Lugalbanda, part 1)

SEASON 3: EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD

31: Introduction to Early Dynastic Sumer (& the historical Gilgamesh), 2900-2350 BCE (Gilgamesh vs Huwawa)

32: Early Sumerians in Ur, 2900-2600 BCE (Gilgamesh vs the Bull of Heaven)

33: The golden age of Kish, 2900-2600 BCE (Gilgamesh vs Aga of Kish)

34: The Lower Diyala & the foundation of Mari, 2900-2600 BCE (Ningishzida’s journey to the nether world)

Common arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus lagopus) Dovrefjell National Park, Norway

Mountain Weasel (Mustela altaica)

Игорь Метельский