This Week in the Ancient Near East
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
For Quick Energy, Mamluks Choose Sugar! or, The Archaeology of 13-16th Century C...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Opium Trail from Egypt to Persia, or Putting Your Hope in Dope, Ancient Edit...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Case of the Very Different Iron Age Shipwrecks at Dor, or, Underwater Insura...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
A Prehistoric Figurine of Problematic Possibilities, or Or, Mythogram for Mother...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Dear Judah, This is Not a Bill, Except It Really Is, Signed, Assyria; or, The Ir...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Great Nubian Gold Rush (of the Second Millennium BCE?), or, Gold Bugs of the...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
All I Want for Chanukah is a New Hasmonean Wall in Jerusalem, or, Shameless Holi...
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Does Anybody at Iron Age Arad Really Know What Time It Is? Or, If You Can Write...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
To Live and Die at Late Bronze Age Yavne Yam, or, I Dream of a Gini with a Jar F...
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A Dam Grows in Iron Age Jerusalem, Or, When the Levites Break
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Puzzling Case of Children’s Rattles in Early Bronze Age Syria, or, Here Kid,...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Banking on Silver Hoards in the Bronze Age Levant, or “Baby You are So Money You...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Does a Tiny Find Sort of Illuminate a Biblical Figure and Judean Bureacracy? or,...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Tales Ancient Scripts Can Tell, If We could Only Decipher Them, Like the Sou...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Two Faces of Hatshepsut’s Statues, or, Studies in the Archaeology of Iconocl...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Roman Pigs in Judea, or Close Encounters of the Swinish Kind
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How Phoenicians Turned Into Carthaginians But Forgot Their Genes, or, The Other...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Bronze Age Tin From Cornwall to the Carmel, or How Tinny was My Valley
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Computer Dating Service, Or, Sometimes Things Are Slightly...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Diving into the Mikvah at Ostia, Or, When is a Pool Not a Pool?
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Beads, Bangles, and Bowls in Iron Age Judah, Or, Tchotckes Make the Man (and Wom...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Getting Blood From a Stone (Arrowhead), Or, Waging Peace, Unsuccessfully, in the...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Finally, Some Evidence of the Pharaoh Necho at Megiddo, or, How to Excavate in t...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
New Excavations in the Church at the Navel of the World, or, How to Dig in Jerus...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Case of the Late Iron Age Building in the Middle of the Desert Filled With D...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Hezekiah Gets His Grooves Off, Or, Cult Consolidator or Cost Cutter?
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Carbs, The Lower Paleolithic Breakfast of Champions, Or, Pass the Acorns and Wat...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Case of the Very Long Roman Legal Papyrus from the Judean Desert, Or, Do You...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Mysterious Giant Astronomical Observatory of Stone That Wasn't, or Rujm el-H...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Art of Cursing Your Rivals in Ancient Athens, Or, How to Say #$@#!&! in Gree...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Early Alphabet (™) in Third Millennium Syria? Or, Spelling it Out, Lightly B...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Between Death and Taxes in the 8th Century BCE, or Hezekiah’s Beltway Politics
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Mesopotamian Map of Mystery, Or, From Babylon to the Boondocks and Back Agai...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
How to Go from Spindle Whorls to Wagon Wheels in Just 6,000 Years, or Rotational...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Reading Eclipses for Fun and Profit, or from Divine Intervention to Priestly Pro...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
(How) Long Reign Hezekiah, or A 100th Episode for the Ages!
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Neolithic Shaman Girl from Çemka Höyük, or Terrapin Station in the Tenth Mil...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
How to Dye a Fabric in the Middle Bronze Age, Or, See, I Told You Those Gross Li...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Tale of the Egyptian Scribes and their Bad Knees, Or, If You Can Build a Pyr...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
A Deepwater - Like Really Really Deep- Late Bronze Age Shipwreck or, Down to the...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Horsing Around the Ancient Near East in the Third Millennium BCE, Or, Let Me Get...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
A Waxy Buildup at Iron Age Horvat Tevet, Or, Does This Beeswax Make me Look Cana...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
Welcome to Çatalhöyük, Population ? Or, Does Size Matter, Neolithic Edition
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The Case of the Missing Branch of the Nile That Everyone Sort of Knew Had to be...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
And Now Even Iron Age Jerusalem Gets Radiocarbonated! Or, Hezekiah Climbs the Ha...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
For Fuller, Redder Bronze Age Lips, or, It's That Lipstick from Iran
This Week in the Ancient Near East
A Tale of Two Cities, Which Happen to be from the Hellenistic Period and are Loc...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
That Sunny Little Temple at Tel Azekah, or, The Temple’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
The Love Call of the De-Extincted Mammoth, or, Ethics in Paleo-genomic Research...
This Week in the Ancient Near East
