Thin End of the Wedge
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...
Episodes (170)
34. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni: Urartu and digital public engagement
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33. How did we get here?
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32. András Bácskay: Fever!
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31. Stefania Ermidoro: Revisiting a Victorian explorer: Layard in the archives
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30. Elynn Gorris: Locating the Neo-Elamite kingdom
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29. Elena Devecchi, Stefano de Martino, Walther Sallaberger. Virtual assyriology...
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28. Sophus Helle: 150 years of Gilgamesh
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27. Reinhard Pirngruber: Babylonian astronomical diaries
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26. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver: Hittite art
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25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming...
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24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre
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23. Heather Baker: Babylonian houses and housing
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22. Jaafar Jotheri: Wonderful waterways: the geo-archaeology of southern Iraq
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21. Fabienne Huber Vuillet: Meanings from the mundane
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20. Xiaoli Ouyang: Silver in Sumer: money in Mesopotamia?
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19. Shiyanthi Thavapalan: Colour in Mesopotamia
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18. Carmen Gütschow: Archaeological conservation
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17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine
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16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project
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15. Daniel Nicky: Teaching Mesopotamia through music
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14. Aaron Tugendhaft: Images, idols and iconoclasm
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13. Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology?
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12. Gojko Barjamovic: International trade
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11. Carlos Gonçalves: The human face of Mesopotamian maths
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10. Licia Romano: Death and Burial in Sumer
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9. Elisa Rossberger: Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas
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8. Saber Amiri Parian: Re-reading the Elamite version of Behistun
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7. Dahlia Shehata. Anzu: the many faces of a monster
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6. Paul Collins: Displaying the ancient Middle East in the 21st century
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5. Jacob Jawdat and Rients de Boer: Gardening on the frontline
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4. Gina Konstantopoulos: A demon haunted world
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3. Richard Dumbrill: Music in Mesopotamia
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2. Jana Matuszak: Misogyny and the ideal Sumerian woman
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1. Laith Hussein: Tell Harmal, heart of Eshnunna
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