Articles by Jenny Williamson

The Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest, largest, most sophisticated Bronze Age civilizations we know about today. Roughly 80 cities and towns have been unearthed [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Ancient origins: Was the Mohenjo Daro ‘Massacre’ Real? John Roach: “Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro,” National Geographic George [...Read More...]

For over a thousand years, the ancient Egyptians sent their ships out to trade with a fabulous kingdom. They dragged their ships from the Nile to the coast of the Red Sea, [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here are some documentaries we found useful: Here’s that image of Queen Ati and King Parahu we talked about: Here are more sources that helped us write [...Read More...]

Perched on a cliff at the edge of the world in the remote Orkney Islands, the ancient village of Skara Brae is a picturesque and dramatic sight. Carved into an ancient [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a really informative documentary on Cahokia: And here is a video of some people playing Chunkey! Our sources include, in no particular order: [...Read More...]

Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North America was located along the Mississippi River. At its peak, perhaps 15,000 people lived there—and [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First off, here are some pictures of the site at Gobekli Tepe: Here’s a picture of the single female figure found at the site (in Layer II): And [...Read More...]

In our episode on the Sphinx Water Erosion Theory, we discussed the theory that the Sphinx was 10,000 years old. This date would require us to completely reorder our sense of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s Debbie Felton’s book Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical History and Mythology. More info can be found here, including [...Read More...]