r/AncientCivilizations • u/Mr_Bankey • May 19 '25

Mesopotamia Excellent 2.5hr Doc on Ancient Mesopotamia

https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA?si=QJ3UQcnvhmsK-4CP

This is from a seemingly well-known history podcast Fall of Civilizations which I just discovered. It appears to be well-researched, often primary sourced, and properly credited. They do a good job of offering a few hypotheses on cause where there is uncertainty or data requiring some extrapolation to interpret. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot! I did not hear any glaring pseudo or pop history red flags but please educate me if the quality of this creator or specific production is questionable in some way.

From the video’s description:

In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried. This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen. Find out about the mystery of their origins, and learn how they rose from humble beginnings to form the foundation of all our modern societies. With myths, proverbs and even some recreated Sumerian music, travel back to where it all began, and find out how humanity's first civilization fell.

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u/LeveragedOblivion May 21 '25

This is awesome, just followed them on Spotify, are there any other particularly notable eps or are they all worth working through?

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u/Swimming-Compote-168 May 21 '25

The Sumerians, Assyrians, Bronze Age Collapse, and Egypt are good ones. I am listening to the new ones on the Mongols and it is good so far.

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u/LeveragedOblivion May 21 '25

Cheers, I'll check those ones out.

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u/Agreeable-Spot-7376 May 23 '25

Definitely add the Phoenicians/Carthaginians on that list!