Anita Arnand

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1,099 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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Empire: World History · 362. Ancient Egypt: Great Kings of The Bronze Age (Ep 1) · 24 May 2026 podcast

I mean, there's one of the things that I'd heard in sort of like Indiana Jones with a sack full of swag just sort of makes off to his academic career.

I mean, is that the kind of thing that you didn't want to go near?

We should say these little tablets that look like Ryvita biscuits.

And if you don't have them in your country, they're sort of like square, brown, unremarkable looking.

Now, you're saying he couldn't have read them because they weren't written in cuneiform solely, were they?

They were also written in a much older language.

Just tell us what was written on them.

You're just a little liar, pants on fire.

I mean,

I mean, he did the work.

He did the work, just not at candlelight and not immediately, you know, having a light bulb over his head.

Now, we should say, I mean, the reason these Amana tablets are so important is because they sort of turn upside down our understanding of the ancient world.

Tell us why they were so important and what they changed about our view.

But the thing that is, I suppose, revolutionary about them is that the way we understood the ancient world is that there were separate civilizations all doing their own thing, all speeding at their own pace.

But after these tablets were discovered, we see an interconnected world of communication, commerce, and, you know, quite sophisticated where things aren't separate at all.

Well, look, we're going to take a break.

Join us after the break when we talk about some of the authors of some of these letters.

And one particular favorite of mine, Rib Hadda of Byblos, who writes so much, he's told, please stop writing.

Enough already.

Join us after the break.

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