Habits, health, beer parties, careers, raising kids, and personal crises – stories of ancient Mesopotamians told through more than half a million clay tablets. They say, “The past is a foreign country.” This is true. Also true are the similarities of modern and ancient people.

🚩About My Guest:

⁠Dr. Amanda Podany⁠ is a professor of History at Cal Poly Pomona. She has authored many books, including the following:

Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, and
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East.

🎧History of America's Conspiracy Theories

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Image attribution: "Soldiers, ivory, Mari, Syria." Image by ALFGRN, provided on Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

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1. Opening and closing music of the program:

Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.

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2. Background music to guest introduction:

The Desert | The Grand Score

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You Are Not Forgotten