►Who eats the food that is offered in temples to gods? ►Was separation of church & state even conceivable to ancient Mesopotamians? ►Ancient climate crisis: abandoned regions and religions ►How do we know so much about ancient Mesopotamia - from epics of gods to chronicles of kings to everyday lives of ordinary people? ►Did women have property rights in ancient Mesopotamia? Could women obtain divorce? Could women serve as clergies? ►Story of one king with a bride younger than his own kids!
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Tonia Sharlach is professor at Oklahoma State University. Her fields of research and expertise include Ancient history, Sumerian and Babylonian civilization and religion, and women in Ancient Near Eastern religion.
She received her PhD from Harvard university and is the author of An Ox of One's Own: Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur - a book we discuss in this episode.
Her next project is tentatively titled Death and Taxes in Early Mesopotamia.
🚩Dr. Amanda Podany shares stories of ancient Mesopotamians - from beer parties to careers to lawsuits? 🎧 Listen here.
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Adel Aali
Host, Unravelling the Middle East
Host, History Behind News Podcast
Unravelling the Middle East podcast is a production of the History Behind News program.
Image attribution:
Terracotta relief of Ishtar with wings from Larsa (second millennium BC). Image on Wikipedia, by Rama and one more author (Own work), provided under CC BY-SA 3.0 fr license. Image background removed & image transposed on a black background.
Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
2. Background music to guest introduction:
The Desert | The Grand Score
The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 Internatio
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