🌴🦁EPISODE 13 IS NOW LIVE 🦁🌴
Added 2021-06-14 17:44:20 +0000 UTCThank you to everyone for your patience in waiting for this new episode. These long episodes always take a long time to make, but when it comes to this subject, I felt I couldn't leave anything out.
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In the lowlands of Northern Iraq, a series of enormous cities lies crumbling in ruins...
In this episode, find out about one of the most remarkable ancient civilizations: the society known today as the neo-Assyrian Empire. Discover how the Assyrians built their empire out of the ashes of the Bronze Age, and built an empire of iron that lasted for centuries. Explore the extraordinary flourishing of art and technology that they fostered. And finally, discover what happened to cause their final, devastating collapse.
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We've got some exciting things coming soon, with a video accompaniment for Episode 12 on the Inca, including some absolutely breathtaking aerial shots of the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, Cusco, Choquequirao and others. We've also got some incredible archaeologically correct CGI reconstructions of medieval Machu Picchu and the Inca capital of Cusco, which I hope will really bring the subject to life.
There are also some eras that I've struggled with approaching in the past, since they are what I think of as "silent civilisations" - that is, they either didn't write anything down, their languages are undeciphered, or nothing they wrote has survived. Among them are the Indus Valley, Cahokia, The Ancestral Pueblans, and Great Zimbabwe. This is a challenge for the usual primary source-based format of Fall of Civs, but I'm toying with the idea of releasing a small offshoot series on these civilisations, featuring slightly shorter episodes, but with the same depth and detail I know you all enjoy. I'll be making this series accessible only to my patrons, as a way of saying thank you for continuing to support the show.
I really hope you enjoy the new episode, and thank you so much as always for believing in the show.
All the best,
Paul
Comments
I'm late but was there a source list posted for this episode?
Vanessa Deggins
2025-06-21 17:47:00 +0000 UTCThis Podcast has a special place in my heart forever, since it helped to reduce the boredom of 14 day quarantine in Bangkok on June after my father in law passed away too young. I still remember how I lay in the bathtub, relaxing in warm water, listening this podcast, closing my eyes. And after I closed them, there emerged pictures of a time before that took me away from the comfortable but boring hotel room. My mind was filling the podcast with pictures & artefacts that I connected to this region in various Museums. Thank you for giving me the ability to timetravel and stay sane in an Insane environment.
Robert Poser
2022-10-24 23:05:11 +0000 UTC
