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This Week in the Ancient Near East

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The podcast that takes archaeology precisely as seriously as it deserves. Two real professors of archaeology and one guy from a fake institution discuss cutting edge archaeological discoveries at a high professional level using technical knowledge and stuff. A scholarly podcast for the discerning listener, it’s handmade, artisanal, and bespoke! Critics say, “A cheeky and irreverent take,” and “the good kind of shenanigans.” Other critics say, “damaging to archaeology,” and “deeply discreditable....

Episodes (136)

Please Don’t Eat the Halafian Daisies, or Plant Based Mathematics in Prehistory?

This Week in the Ancient Near East

Mar 23, 202642:25failed

For Quick Energy, Mamluks Choose Sugar! or, The Archaeology of 13-16th Century C...

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Mar 9, 202638:13failed

The Opium Trail from Egypt to Persia, or Putting Your Hope in Dope, Ancient Edit...

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Feb 23, 202638:13pending

The Case of the Very Different Iron Age Shipwrecks at Dor, or, Underwater Insura...

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Feb 9, 202640:58pending

A Prehistoric Figurine of Problematic Possibilities, or Or, Mythogram for Mother...

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Jan 26, 202636:21pending

Dear Judah, This is Not a Bill, Except It Really Is, Signed, Assyria; or, The Ir...

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Jan 12, 202638:11pending

The Great Nubian Gold Rush (of the Second Millennium BCE?), or, Gold Bugs of the...

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Dec 29, 202541:09pending

All I Want for Chanukah is a New Hasmonean Wall in Jerusalem, or, Shameless Holi...

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Dec 15, 202536:02pending

Does Anybody at Iron Age Arad Really Know What Time It Is? Or, If You Can Write...

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Dec 1, 202541:36pending

To Live and Die at Late Bronze Age Yavne Yam, or, I Dream of a Gini with a Jar F...

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Nov 17, 202541:11pending

A Dam Grows in Iron Age Jerusalem, Or, When the Levites Break

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Nov 3, 202540:08pending

The Puzzling Case of Children’s Rattles in Early Bronze Age Syria, or, Here Kid,...

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Oct 20, 202540:41pending

Banking on Silver Hoards in the Bronze Age Levant, or “Baby You are So Money You...

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Oct 6, 202542:50pending

Does a Tiny Find Sort of Illuminate a Biblical Figure and Judean Bureacracy? or,...

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Sep 22, 202539:08pending

The Tales Ancient Scripts Can Tell, If We could Only Decipher Them, Like the Sou...

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Sep 8, 202539:42pending

The Two Faces of Hatshepsut’s Statues, or, Studies in the Archaeology of Iconocl...

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Aug 25, 202542:37pending

Roman Pigs in Judea, or Close Encounters of the Swinish Kind

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Aug 11, 202535:42pending

How Phoenicians Turned Into Carthaginians But Forgot Their Genes, or, The Other...

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Jul 21, 202539:54pending

Bronze Age Tin From Cornwall to the Carmel, or How Tinny was My Valley

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Jul 7, 202541:14pending

The Dead Sea Scrolls Computer Dating Service, Or, Sometimes Things Are Slightly...

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Jun 23, 20251:02:30pending

Diving into the Mikvah at Ostia, Or, When is a Pool Not a Pool?

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Jun 9, 202537:07pending

Beads, Bangles, and Bowls in Iron Age Judah, Or, Tchotckes Make the Man (and Wom...

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May 26, 202538:41pending

Getting Blood From a Stone (Arrowhead), Or, Waging Peace, Unsuccessfully, in the...

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May 12, 202537:50pending

Finally, Some Evidence of the Pharaoh Necho at Megiddo, or, How to Excavate in t...

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Apr 28, 202546:17pending

New Excavations in the Church at the Navel of the World, or, How to Dig in Jerus...

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Apr 14, 202537:50pending

The Case of the Late Iron Age Building in the Middle of the Desert Filled With D...

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Mar 31, 202534:47pending

Hezekiah Gets His Grooves Off, Or, Cult Consolidator or Cost Cutter?

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Mar 17, 202539:12pending

Carbs, The Lower Paleolithic Breakfast of Champions, Or, Pass the Acorns and Wat...

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Mar 3, 202537:38pending

The Case of the Very Long Roman Legal Papyrus from the Judean Desert, Or, Do You...

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Feb 17, 202539:03pending

The Mysterious Giant Astronomical Observatory of Stone That Wasn't, or Rujm el-H...

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Feb 3, 202540:20pending

The Art of Cursing Your Rivals in Ancient Athens, Or, How to Say #$@#!&! in Gree...

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Jan 20, 202539:46pending

The Early Alphabet (™) in Third Millennium Syria? Or, Spelling it Out, Lightly B...

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Jan 6, 202554:24pending

Between Death and Taxes in the 8th Century BCE, or Hezekiah’s Beltway Politics

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Dec 23, 202441:20pending

The Mesopotamian Map of Mystery, Or, From Babylon to the Boondocks and Back Agai...

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Dec 9, 202439:55pending

How to Go from Spindle Whorls to Wagon Wheels in Just 6,000 Years, or Rotational...

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Nov 25, 202440:56pending

Reading Eclipses for Fun and Profit, or from Divine Intervention to Priestly Pro...

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Nov 11, 202439:55pending

(How) Long Reign Hezekiah, or A 100th Episode for the Ages!

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Oct 28, 202443:59pending

The Neolithic Shaman Girl from Çemka Höyük, or Terrapin Station in the Tenth Mil...

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Oct 14, 202440:06pending

How to Dye a Fabric in the Middle Bronze Age, Or, See, I Told You Those Gross Li...

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Sep 30, 202438:19pending

The Tale of the Egyptian Scribes and their Bad Knees, Or, If You Can Build a Pyr...

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Sep 16, 202429:47pending

A Deepwater - Like Really Really Deep- Late Bronze Age Shipwreck or, Down to the...

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Sep 2, 202431:42pending

Horsing Around the Ancient Near East in the Third Millennium BCE, Or, Let Me Get...

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Aug 19, 202445:19pending

A Waxy Buildup at Iron Age Horvat Tevet, Or, Does This Beeswax Make me Look Cana...

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Aug 5, 202448:41pending

Welcome to Çatalhöyük, Population ? Or, Does Size Matter, Neolithic Edition

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Jul 22, 202453:35pending

The Case of the Missing Branch of the Nile That Everyone Sort of Knew Had to be...

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Jul 8, 202433:59pending

And Now Even Iron Age Jerusalem Gets Radiocarbonated! Or, Hezekiah Climbs the Ha...

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Jun 24, 202452:45pending

For Fuller, Redder Bronze Age Lips, or, It's That Lipstick from Iran

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Jun 10, 202440:53pending

A Tale of Two Cities, Which Happen to be from the Hellenistic Period and are Loc...

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May 27, 202447:13pending

That Sunny Little Temple at Tel Azekah, or, The Temple’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear...

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May 13, 202450:52pending

The Love Call of the De-Extincted Mammoth, or, Ethics in Paleo-genomic Research...

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Apr 29, 202437:01pending