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Thin End of the Wedge — 86 episodes
84. Gioele Zisa: The plant world
83. David Kertai: The palaces of Assyria
82. IAA prize winners 2025
81. Lisa Wilhelmi: Bronze Age Diplomacy
80. Ea-nasir: everyone's favourite copper merchant
79. Rocío Da Riva and Nathan Wasserman: Carnival in Babylon
78. Mustafa Faraj: The Gates of Nineveh
77. Augusta McMahon: Excavations at Nippur
76. Tina Greenfield: Zooarchaeology in Mesopotamia
75. Moudhy Al-Rashid: Engaging interest in Mesopotamia
74. Michael Danti and John MacGinnis. Nimrud: post-conflict archaeology in the heartland of Assyria
73. Zoltán Niederreiter, Erika Roboz: Kingdom of Gods and Demons
72. Christopher Jones: Court politics in the Neo-Assyrian empire
71. 2024 IAA Prize winners
70. Simo Parpola and the State Archives of Assyria project
69. Carolyne Douché: Carpology in the archaeology of ancient western Asia
68. Witold Tyborowski: Finding a job during Hammurabi's reign
67. Amy Gansell: Dressing Assyria's queens
66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping Cuneiform
65. Omar N'Shea: Masculinities in Mesopotamia
64. Ali Kadhem Ghanem: Managing the site of Ur
63: Enrique Jiménez: the electronic Babylonian Library
62. Prize-winning assyriology
61. Shigeo Yamada: Yasin Tepe: on the margins of empire
60. Susanne Paulus: Back to School in Babylonia
59. Louise Pryke: Ishtar then and now
58. Looking back at RAI Leiden: on conferences, and catching up with guests
57. Looking forward to Leiden
56. Nicholas Reid: The Big House
55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology
54. Eckart Frahm: A new history of Assyria, the world's first empire
53. Parsa Daneshmand: Consensus decision-making in divination
52. Birgül Öğüt: phytoliths in west Asian archaeology
51. Ali al-Juboori: Reflections
50. Dr Basima Jalil Abed
49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines SHORT VERSION
49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines
48. Amanda Podany: A New History of the Ancient Near East
47. Louise Quillien: Textiles from Babylonia
46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals
45. Victor Klinkenberg: An archaeological approach to tablets
44. Sophie Cluzan: Votive statues from Mari
43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century
42. Julian Edgeworth Reade: Reflections
41. Farouk al-Rawi: reflections
40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul
39. Saana Svärd: Digital Assyriology in Helsinki
38. Tonia Sharlach: The power behind the throne
37. Tim Clayden: The Kassites
36. Amir al-Zubaidi: Nasiriyah Museum, and engaging Iraqi audiences
35. Małgorzata Sandowicz: Law and order in Babylonia
34. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni: Urartu and digital public engagement
33. How did we get here?
32. András Bácskay: Fever!
31. Stefania Ermidoro: Revisiting a Victorian explorer: Layard in the archives
30. Elynn Gorris: Locating the Neo-Elamite kingdom
29. Elena Devecchi, Stefano de Martino, Walther Sallaberger. Virtual assyriology: RAI 67,Turin
28. Sophus Helle: 150 years of Gilgamesh
27. Reinhard Pirngruber: Babylonian astronomical diaries
26. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver: Hittite art
25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming together
24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre
23. Heather Baker: Babylonian houses and housing
22. Jaafar Jotheri: Wonderful waterways: the geo-archaeology of southern Iraq
21. Fabienne Huber Vuillet: Meanings from the mundane
20. Xiaoli Ouyang: Silver in Sumer: money in Mesopotamia?
19. Shiyanthi Thavapalan: Colour in Mesopotamia
18. Carmen Gütschow: Archaeological conservation
17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine
16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project
15. Daniel Nicky: Teaching Mesopotamia through music
14. Aaron Tugendhaft: Images, idols and iconoclasm
13. Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology?
12. Gojko Barjamovic: International trade
11. Carlos Gonçalves: The human face of Mesopotamian maths
10. Licia Romano: Death and Burial in Sumer
9. Elisa Rossberger: Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas
8. Saber Amiri Parian: Re-reading the Elamite version of Behistun
7. Dahlia Shehata. Anzu: the many faces of a monster
6. Paul Collins: Displaying the ancient Middle East in the 21st century
5. Jacob Jawdat and Rients de Boer: Gardening on the frontline
4. Gina Konstantopoulos: A demon haunted world
3. Richard Dumbrill: Music in Mesopotamia
2. Jana Matuszak: Misogyny and the ideal Sumerian woman
1. Laith Hussein: Tell Harmal, heart of Eshnunna
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