Thin End of the Wedge
A podcast by Jon Taylor
72 Episodes
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70. Simo Parpola and the State Archives of Assyria project
Published: 11/10/2024 -
69. Carolyne Douché: Carpology in the archaeology of ancient western Asia
Published: 11/09/2024 -
68. Witold Tyborowski: Finding a job during Hammurabi's reign
Published: 02/08/2024 -
67. Amy Gansell: Dressing Assyria's queens
Published: 05/06/2024 -
66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping Cuneiform
Published: 10/05/2024 -
65. Omar N'Shea: Masculinities in Mesopotamia
Published: 03/04/2024 -
64. Ali Kadhem Ghanem: Managing the site of Ur
Published: 06/03/2024 -
63: Enrique Jiménez: the electronic Babylonian Library
Published: 03/02/2024 -
62. Prize-winning assyriology
Published: 19/12/2023 -
61. Shigeo Yamada: Yasin Tepe: on the margins of empire
Published: 17/11/2023 -
60. Susanne Paulus: Back to School in Babylonia
Published: 13/10/2023 -
59. Louise Pryke: Ishtar then and now
Published: 07/09/2023 -
58. Looking back at RAI Leiden: on conferences, and catching up with guests
Published: 10/08/2023 -
57. Looking forward to Leiden
Published: 15/07/2023 -
56. Nicholas Reid: The Big House
Published: 29/06/2023 -
55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology
Published: 29/05/2023 -
54. Eckart Frahm: A new history of Assyria, the world's first empire
Published: 26/04/2023 -
53. Parsa Daneshmand: Consensus decision-making in divination
Published: 30/03/2023 -
52. Birgül Öğüt: phytoliths in west Asian archaeology
Published: 01/03/2023 -
51. Ali al-Juboori: Reflections
Published: 02/02/2023
Thin End of the Wedge explores life in the ancient Middle East. There are many wonderful stories we can tell about those people, their communities, the gritty reality of their lives, their hopes, fears and beliefs. We can do that through the objects they left behind and the cities where they once lived. Our focus is on the cultures that used cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) writing, so mostly on ancient Iraq and nearby regions from about 3000 BC to about 100 AD. Thin End of the Wedge brings you expert insights and the latest research in clear and simple language. What do we know? How do we know anything? And why is what we know always changing? Why is any of this important today? We won’t talk to you like you’re stupid. But you won’t need any special training to understand what we’re talking about. This is an independent production by me as an individual. It is not supported by my employer or any other organisation I am involved with, and the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect theirs.
