Mesopotamian

Browse the Mesopotamian era within the In Our Time archive.

The Hittites
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
Release date:
23 Dec 2021
Persepolis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
Release date:
07 Jun 2018
Epic of Gilgamesh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
Release date:
03 Nov 2016
The Bronze Age Collapse
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
Release date:
16 Jun 2016
Archaeology and Imperialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
Release date:
14 Apr 2005
Babylon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.
Release date:
03 Jun 2004
The Alphabet
Melvyn Bragg investigates how sounds turned into signs and signs became the alphabet.
Release date:
18 Dec 2003
The Calendar
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
Release date:
19 Dec 2002
The Library at Nineveh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
Release date:
15 May 2008
Zoroastrianism
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.
Release date:
11 Nov 2004