Archaeology

Archaeology

episodes

Interviews with archaeologists about their new books.

Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings with Ken Dark (Bloomsbury, 2026)

October 9, 2026

Tyrants and Traders

Ken Dark
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Brito…

Avraham Faust and Zev I. Farber, "The Bible’s First Kings: Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

September 14, 2026

The Bible's First Kings

Avraham Faust and Zev I. Farber

Saul, David, and Solomon are among the most influential—and most contested—figures in the Hebrew Bible. The biblical narratives portray them as rulers…

Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Geomythography: Myth, Landscape and the Roots of Culture" (Luath Press, 2025)

September 6, 2026

Scotland's Geomythography

Stuart McHardy
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

What can we learn from our landscape? How can Geomythography help us understand our cultural heritage? What is Geomythography? Geomythography is the i…

Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)

September 2, 2026

Artifactual

Elizabeth Anne Davis
Hosted by Armanc Yildiz

In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, act…

Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome" (Yale UP, 2025)

August 22, 2026

Fulvia

Jane Draycott

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, a…

Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, "Tel Rehov: A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valle" (The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, 2020)

August 17, 2026

Tel Rehov

Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen

This interview with Professor Amihai Mazar was conducted by Željko Stanojević for the New Books Network. The conversation focuses on Tel Reḥov: A Bron…

Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)

August 9, 2026

Dwelling on Earth

Stefan Al
Hosted by Alex Hallbom

A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation―the home―and its effects on the land, cities, and people themselves. Americans spend, on…

Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce eds., "The Ancient Israelite World" (Routledge, 2024)

July 31, 2026

The Ancient Israelite World

Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce

The Ancient Israelite World (Routledge, 2024) presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel’s society…

Patrick Nunn, "Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe" (Reaktion, 2026)

July 26, 2026

Whispers from Celtic Seas

Patrick Nunn
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

What if the legends of submerged cities, land-making witches and sea-crossing bishops are not mere inventions but echoes of real events? Whispers …

Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals" (UP Florida, 2026)

July 20, 2026

Sentient Seas

Ian J. McNiven
Hosted by Natali Pearson

Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals (UP Florida, 2026), published by University Press of Florida (2026), offers a global pe…

Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

June 1, 2026

Empires of the Southern Ocean

Dougald O’Reilly
Hosted by Patrick Jory

From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political tran…

Patrick Wyman, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)

May 26, 2026

Lost Worlds

Patrick Wyman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

There’s a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains …

John Waddell, "The Celtic World: A History" (Four Courts Press, 2026)

May 23, 2026

The Celtic World

John Waddell
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to lands south of the Black Sea in Asia Minor. The stud…

Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)

May 20, 2026

Rehumanizing People of the Past

Kristin LaFollette
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026) argues that much of the …

Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

April 27, 2026

War and Community in Late Antiquity

Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa
Hosted by Michael Motia

Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, War and Community in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2026) Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbaria…

Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

March 13, 2026

A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre

Jessica Clarke

"Roman theatre" is a term often used to describe the theatre of ancient Italy during the second and third century BCE. Plautus and Terence are referre…

Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

March 12, 2026

Surviving Rome

Kim Bowes

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent (Princeton U…

Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

March 11, 2026

Island at the Edge of the World

Mike Pitts
Hosted by Sidney Michelini

Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that popula…

Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)

February 27, 2026

Invisible Hands

Margaret S. Graves
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the internation…

Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)

February 15, 2026

Recentering Southeast Asia

Himanshu Prabha Ray ed.
Hosted by Natali Pearson

Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections (Routledge, 2026) assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19t…