Thin End of the Wedge: Exploring life in the ancient Middle East Transcripts

Thin End of the Wedge: Exploring life in the ancient Middle East 

 

Here you’ll find full transcripts of all the episodes. They’re designed to help listeners. If you want to find people or places mentioned by our guests, you can find them here. You can then find out more about them in the Basics section of this website. I’ll add links to the relevant key terms. If you have a hearing impairment, these should give you access to everything that’s said. Or if you don’t have English as a first language, you may sometimes find these useful to help you better understand what we’re saying.

• Introduction: Hello! And welcome to Thin End of the Wedge
• Episode 1. Laith Hussein. Tell Harmal, heart of Eshnunna
• Episode 2. Jana Matuszak. Misogyny and the ideal Sumerian woman
• Episode 3. Richard Dumbrill. Music in Mesopotamia
• Episode 4. Gina Konstantopoulos. A demon haunted world
• Episode 5. Jacob Jawdat and Rients de Boer. Gardening on the frontline
• Episode 6. Paul Collins. Displaying the ancient Middle East in the 21^st century
• Episode 7. Dahlia Shehata. Anzu: the many faces of a monster
• Episode 8. Saber Amiri Parian. Re-reading the Elamite version of Behistun
• Episode 9. Elisa Roẞberger. Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas
• Episode 10. Licia Romano. Death and burial in Sumer
• Episode 11. Carlos Gonçalves: The Human Face Of Mesopotamian Maths
• Episode 12. Gojko Barjamovic: International Trade
• Episode 13. Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology?
• Episode 14. Aaron Tugendhaft: Images, Idols And Iconoclasm
• Episode 15. Daniel Nicky: Teaching Mesopotamia through music
• Episode 16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project
• Episode 17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine
• Episode 18. Carmen Gütschow: Archaeological conservation
• Episode 19. Shiyanthi Thavapalan: Colour in Mesopotamia
• Episode 20. Xiaoli Ouyang: Silver In Sumer: Money In Mesopotamia?
• Episode 21. Fabienne Huber Vuillet: Meanings From The Mundane
• Episode 22. Jaafar Jotheri: Wonderful waterways: the geo-archaeology of southern Iraq
• Episode 23. Heather Baker: Babylonian Houses And Housing
• Episode 24. Ariane Thomas: a curator’s life at the Louvre
• Episode 25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming together
• Episode 26. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver: Hittite Art
• Episode 27. Reinhard Pirngruber: Babylonian astronomical diaries
• Episode 28. Sophus Helle: 150 Years Of Gilgamesh
• Episode 29. Elena Devecchi, Stefano De Martino, Walther Sallaberger. Virtual Assyriology: RAI 67,Turin
• Episode 30. Elynn Gorris: Locating the Neo-Elamite kingdom
• Episode 31. Stefania Ermidoro: Revisiting a Victorian explorer: Layard in the archives
• Episode 32. András Bácskay: Fever!
• Episode 33. How Did We Get Here?
• Episode 34. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni: Urartu and digital public engagement
• Episode 35. Małgorzata Sandowicz: Law And Order In Babylonia
• Episode 36. Amir Al-Zubaidi: Nasiriyah Museum, And Engaging Iraqi Audiences
• Episode 37. Tim Clayden: The Kassites
• Episode 38. Tonia Sharlach: The Power Behind The Throne
• Episode 39. Saana Svärd: Digital Assyriology in Helsinki
• Episode 40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul
• Episode 41. Farouk al-Rawi: Reflections
• Episode 42. Julian Reade: Reflections
• Episode 43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century
• Episode 44. Sophie Cluzan: Votive statues from Mari
• Episode 45. Victor Klinkenberg: An archaeological approach to tablets
• Episode 46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals
• Episode 47. Louise Quillien: Textiles from Babylonia
• Episode 48. Amanda Podany: A new history of the ancient Near East