Ahoy there, Phil Hellenes. I'm Brandon Hubner, Captain of the Ship over at the Maritime History

Podcast. I'm very much looking forward to Ryan's take on Carthage and whatever else he has on the agenda for us today.

But first, I'd like to invite you to add the Maritime History Podcast to your playlist for whenever today's episode wraps up, that is.

Being that my podcast is a Maritime History Podcast,

anything connected to mankind's relationship with the sea is fair game.

Thus far, we've talked about the seafaring exploits of the major ancient civilizations, those in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant,

the Aegean, and the Indus River Valley. Our first season concluded with a look at the sea peoples and the Bronze Age collapse.

But in season two, we've followed the rise and growth of the Phoenicians, the people renowned for their maritime

skills and ventures.

We've also recently begun a maritime-centric look at the early Greeks and their colonization. So at the time of this episode and my next few are going on air, my podcast and Ryan's history of ancient Greece are almost hand in hand you could say.

Ryan and I were actually chatting recently and we've found that we both share a

similar affinity for the chance that podcasts lend us to present

the nuance and detail of history, much more so than you'll be likely to find in many of the shallow generic histories that are presented

in any of the other places in the modern media age that you can probably think of offhand.

Where Ryan has thus far delved into great detail on the particularities of Greek history and he's done an amazing job at it I might add.

But where he's done this for Greek history I am attempting to do for maritime history.

So while we attempt to lay the necessary groundwork of world history on my podcast. We set aside a special focus on ships, ship iconography in ancient art, shipbuilding techniques, styles, methods, materials, what all of those

can actually tell us about the people who constructed the ships.

We of course also look at maritime religion,

shipwrecks themselves, the archaeology that goes into researching shipwreck

fines, an episode on the Kufu ship from Egypt was a particular

favorite of mine so far. So maybe start with that one. As the Naval Age sets in

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