History of the World podcast

Göbekli Tepe in the Fertile Crescent appears to have marked the start of a megalithic period which ultimately spread acr... Read more

We talk about the emergence of sedentary lifestyles of the Mesolithic and early Neolithic with the interesting story of ... Read more

609 - 522 BCE - This episode will bridge the gap between the fall of the Assyrian Empire and the rise of the Achaemenid ... Read more

3000 - 2000 BCE - The fascinating rise and fall of this iconic Sumerian city-state and a look at the incredible work of ... Read more

1750 - 700 BCE - Continuing the journey through the Bronze Age, crossing over the Late Bronze Age Collapse and into the ... Read more

2300 - 2083 BCE - Sargon the Great conquered Sumer and extended what some refer to as the first Empire.  This is the sto... Read more

Homo habilis is thought to be the first species of human to have lived.  Find out who he was and who else lived around h... Read more

Social media indicates that we love talking about ourselves, so let's do it.  Let's talk about ourselves, the modern hum... Read more

3000 - 1750 BCE - The rise of powerful kingdoms and civilisations in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley, bronzework... Read more

Find out about the geological science behind glaciation studies, the effect that ice ages have had on our ancestors and ... Read more

1900 - 1595 BCE - Semitic speakers from the west had established their own kingdoms throughout Mesopotamia.  The Babylon... Read more

Homo erectus, as the name would suggest, is the first fully upright human and it was definitely a migratory species.  Fi... Read more

With this being the last unofficial episode before next week's launch of Volume 3, we take a closer look at the period b... Read more

2500000 - 700 BCE - Why did we start killing each other and how come we were so good at it?

How is it that we can talk?  Why are we the only animal that can successfully produce audio podcasts that can be listene... Read more

1213 - 525 BCE - Just what caused the New Kingdom to collapse and what did Egypt become in the one thousand years betwee... Read more

522 - 329 BCE - A closer look at the dramatic stories of the empire under the rule of Darius the Great, Xerxes I and Dar... Read more

We explore how all of the Neolithic advances and environmental changes affected the prehistoric peoples and cultures of ... Read more

The highly anticipated neanderthals, our rugged cousin who appeared to be quite brutish but was surprisingly intelligent... Read more

1200 - 1050 BCE - All of the societies of the Near East either weakened considerably or disappeared altogether.  What co... Read more