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Feb 6, 2013
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“Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?” – Nahum 3:7 Ashurbanipal spent the end of his reign establishing a library of Mesopotamian knowledge and culture. Twenty years after his death, internal discord and powerful enemies combined to seal the fate of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. http://s407341505.onlinehome.us/Episode_21_For_the_Sake_of_Distant_Days.mp3
Released:
Feb 6, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 6 – The New Kingdoms: After expelling the Hyksos, the rulers of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty led their New Kingdom in an unprecedented drive for territorial expansion. In Syria and the Levant, they were forced to contend with powerful new states forged by the Hurrians and the Hitt... by The Ancient World