Midas, Croesus, and the Lost Kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia survive only as whispers in the archaeological and historical record; others exist through enigmatic references and legends in the writings of foreigners; and still others left behind relatively abundant records, allowing us to reconstruct a thriving world of states that have been almost totally forgotten.

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0:07.0	The horses splashed through the river for it, soaked up to their whithers and struggling
0:19.6	against the current.
0:20.6	It was fast here, fed by snow melt from higher up in the hills, the rushing, late spring
0:25.0	waters pushing against their legs.
0:27.8	The horses winneed in Nate, their eyes wide worried by the force of it, not really reassured
0:32.2	by the soothing calls of the herders leading them across and urging them along from behind.
0:37.0	The animals were tired but well fed.
0:39.2	The meats had foddered them generously over the winter before the horse merchants had
0:42.6	taken them, and now the vast pastures of the Highlands of Anatolia provided all the
0:46.8	grass the horses could eat along the way.
0:50.3	It was a long journey, but a profitable one, not the leading merchant.
0:53.9	They had already passed the half abandoned portresses of Araratu, rock cut stone tombs,
0:58.6	hundreds of years old, massive burial mounds, cities that had been empty for the better
1:02.6	part of a thousand years.
1:05.1	The winds howled up here, sudden late spring snowstorms can hit at any time, and predators,
1:10.0	both human and animal were all around.
1:12.8	The merchant imagined the curious jingling sound, his payment with mate when he and the horses
1:16.7	finally arrived in Sardis, hundreds of miles further to the west.
1:21.2	The coins emblazoned with the head, the king of Lydia and the sign of the lion, mate
1:24.8	he was told from a mixture of gold and silver, who had ever heard of such a thing.
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