The Bronze Age Brotherhood of Kings

The Ancients

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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More than 3,000 years ago, a coalition of Bronze Age rulers existed across the Near Eastern world. Kings reigning over great Bronze age powers like New Kingdom Egypt, Babylon and the Hittites coexisted and interacted with each other. They exchanged precious goods, signed treaties and even married into each other's families. But how exactly did this brotherhood of kings emerge? And how important was it to the history of the ancient Near East?

In today's episode of The Ancients Tristan Hughes is joined by Prof. Amanda Podany to talk about what has come to be known as the first ‘international age’.

Together they uncover how the brotherhood of kings ruled supreme across the Near Eastern world and explore why they built such a sophisticated and intricate web of diplomatic ties and connections.

Presented by Tristan Hughes. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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1:00.0	UK. More than 3,000 years ago, a Bronze Age United Nations existed across the near-eastern world.
1:18.4	Kings ruling lands thousands of miles apart, interacted with each other via emissaries in some of the earliest surviving examples
1:25.6	of diplomacy.
1:27.5	They exchanged precious goods, they signed treaties, and even married into each other's families. It was a world that had been
1:35.0	shaped by international relations dominated by this brotherhood of kings.
1:41.6	It's the entrance onants on History Hit.
1:44.3	I'm Tristan Hughes your host.
1:46.4	And in today's episode where we are talking about a time that has been dubbed as the first international
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