Hi there everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. I'm Ms. Guilty as everyone else

here but I talk about ancient Greek history a lot. I talk about the Eastern Mediterranean,

get very excited about it in the ancient world. Like is the kind of foundation of European

politics, culture, economics, everything, engineering. But you know it's not because

the development of sophisticated civilizations, cultures, writing of religion, of all sorts

of technologies that were going to be adapted and built on by the ancient Greeks actually

occurred over millennia, previous to the rise of the ancient Greek world in the ancient

Near East, the first alt crescent, the land between the two rivers. Assyria, Babylon, the

Sumerians, the Akkadian Empire. These are the crucible, really, the crucible of our world

today. And thankfully they got cheerleader, they got a spokesperson, a very, very talented

one who is Moody Alt Rashid. She is at Oxford University and she is Utley Brilliant, has been

in Transing People on social media, podcasts, various TV shows about this world that we've

forgotten to remember. Why have we forgotten to remember it? Well, she's got some interesting

answers there as well. It was such a treat to talk to Moody Alt Rashid about Assyriology,

Assyriology. After you've listened to it, you might want to go and check out historyhit.tv

which is what's going on at the moment. We're releasing some big TV shows on historyit.tv.

It's like a history channel, but without aliens on it. So it's pretty good. You go there,

you get a historyit.tv. For some more subscription here, all these podcasts about the ads on the

beginning, then you get hundreds of hours of history documentaries, straightforward history

documentaries. You can absolutely love it. You can go in there and check out our recent

release, Boudica, Queen of the Icini tribe, our uprising in its Rome. Or you can go and

look at the great Heathen Army documentary, I made with Dr. Kat Jarman in which she took

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