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Oldest Stories — 239 episodes · page 1 of 3
The Cimmerian Horse Lords
Esarhaddon and the Empire That Ran Itself
The Lessons of Ahiqar
Sennacherib’s Last Omen
The Bottom of the Mesopotamia Iceberg
Sennacherib Builds a Paradise in Nineveh
Lachish and How an Assyrian Siege Worked
Sennacherib vs Hezekiah in 701 BCE: Isaiah and the Battle of Eltekeh
Babylon Had It Coming
Sennacherib's Inheritance
The Doom of Sargon II
AI and History
The Golden Years of Sargon II
Neo-Assyrian Imperial Administration
The Great Invasion of Urartu
The Composition of the Sargonid Army
The Environment in which the Assyrian Army Emerged
A Tour of Dur-Sharrukin
The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Dur-Sharrukin
The Ascendency of Sargon II
The Ill-Omened Origins of Sargon II
Shalmaneser the Least
Tiglath-Pileser Defeats Israel
Mesopotamia and the Occult: Discussions on the Ancient World
Mesopotamia and the Occult: The Mortal King in Depth
Mesopotamia and the Occult: Dying and Rising in Depth
Mesopotamia and the Occult: The Passionate Woman in Depth
The Four Failures of Tiglath-Pileser III
Deportation, Castration, and Education - The Foundations of Neo-Assyria
The Full Story of Ea-Nasir's Copper
Establishing Assyrian Dominance
Tiglath-Pileser's Revolution
The Assyrian Deep State
OS 168 - The Golden Age of Urartu
OS 167 - The Northern Wars: Etiuni, Urartu, and Diauehi
OS 166 - The Forges of Urartu
OS 165 - The Kings of Urartu
OS 164 - The Rise of Urartu
OS 163 - The Birth of Urartu
OS 162 - The Rise of Phrygia
OS 161 - A Kingdom of Honey and Blood: The Suhu Rebellion
OS 160 - Graham Hancock and the Philosophy of Archeology
OS 159 - Slaves and Bronze in Iron Age Assyria
OS 158 - The Glorious Magnates of Assyria
OS 157 - Women and Horses, the Constraints of Assyria
OS 156 - The Mythical Semiramis in Ancient History
OS 155 - The Angry Puppet: Shamshi-Adad V
OS 154 - Assyrian Civil War: Magnate Edition
OS 153 - Shalmaneser Delegates Authority
OS 152 - The Smothered Spark of Babylon's Dark Age
OS 151 - The Glowing Embers of Babylon's Dark Age
OS 150 - The Battle of Qarqar
OS 149 - Shalmaneser Upends the Levant
OS 148 - Shalmaneser Takes the Throne
OS 147 - From the River to the Sea
The Early History of Near Eastern Cavalry
OS 146 - How Assyria Operated
OS 145 - The Early Neo-Assyrian Army
OS 144 - Call of Calhu
OS 143 - Assurnasirpal Has Too Much Energy
OS 142 - The Assyrian Empire Takes Shape
OS 141 - The Unintended Aramization of Assyria
OS 140- The Dawning of a New Assyrian Empire
OS 139 - An Iron King for an Iron Age
OS 138 - Erra and Ishum Threaten Destruction
OS 137 - The Oldest Dreams
OS 136 - The Fifty Shades of Marduk
OS 135 - Middle Class Demons of Mesopotamia
OS 134 - Poverty, Pessimism, and Comedy in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Theology Within History
Isaiah 55
The Witness of Lamentations
The Book of Job in a Near Eastern Context
OS 133 - Jerusalem Falls
OS 132 - Judah Ascends
OS 131 - Israel's Brutal Judgement
Oldest Stories is now a Book!
OS 130 - Israel Runs Out of Names
OS 129 - Israelite and Phoenician Prosperity
OS 128 - Israel's Moabite Neighbors
OS 127 - Israel's First Historical King
OS 126 - Israel's Great Confusion
OS 125 - Israel's Divided Kingdoms
OS 124 - Israel's Wisdom and Wealth
OS 123 - Israel's Great High Priest
OS 122 - Israel's King David
OS 121 - Israel's Favorite King
OS 120 - Israel's Habiru King
OS 119 - Israel's Young Shepherd
OS 118 - Israel's First Failed King
OS 117 - Israel's First King
OS 116 - Israel's United Monarchy
OS 115 - The Place of Faith in Biblical History
OS 114 - Israel's Judges and Defeats
OS 113 - Israel's Settlements and Philistine Neighbors
OS 112 - Israel's Conquest and Integration in Canaan
OS 111 - Israel's Wandering and Settlement
OS 110 - Israel and the Hebrews
OS 109 - Israel's Numbers Problem
OS 108 - Israel's Formation and the Historical Exodus