An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
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An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
S1 Ep12: Episode 12: Pan-Mediterranean Mythos and Mummy Bees
The Past and Stuff
1 hour 36 minutes
2 years ago
S1 Ep12: Episode 12: Pan-Mediterranean Mythos and Mummy Bees
In this episode Ashley talks about the news of the shrinking human brain and Tracey thinks about how we should warn people tens of thousands of years in the future about our buried nuclear waste (when we get around to burying it. Tracey’s Piece of Stuff is a Cypriot seal, only an inch high but tells a tall tale of a mythology shared around the Pan-Mediterranean world from Egypt to Mesopotamia. Ashley’s piece this week is the stuff of nightmare - 3,000 year old mummified bees.
The Past and Stuff
An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
