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The Rise of the Persian Empire: Professor Matt Waters on Ancient Empires and Cyrus the Great

Tides of History

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The Evolution of Archaeology

What counts as evidence now is not what would have counted as evidence when people were excavating 100 or 120 years ago. Archaeologists, you know, are learning something from everything they're finding and contextualizing it. There's some great examples from excavations in Turkey, ancient Anatolia of timid era sites that show how ideological features can be traced back to the core.

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