Garbage Dump of the Gods

This Week in the Ancient Near East
20/01/2022 46 min Episodio 33
Garbage Dump of the Gods

Listen "Garbage Dump of the Gods"

Descargar episodio Ver en sitio original

Episode Synopsis

What happens when a temple, say, Hatshepsut’s New Kingdom temple at Deir el Bahari, throws out offerings? Are there good and bad types of garbage? Let’s face it, archaeologists will take what they can get. But isn’t “precious rubble” the name of one of Barney and Betty’s kids?

More episodes of the podcast This Week in the Ancient Near East

All I Want for Chanukah is a New Hasmonean Wall in Jerusalem, or, Shameless Holiday Tie In Edition 15/12/2025
Does Anybody at Iron Age Arad Really Know What Time It Is? Or, If You Can Write the Weekly Invoices, Can You Write the Bible? 01/12/2025
To Live and Die at Late Bronze Age Yavne Yam, or, I Dream of a Gini with a Jar Full of Opium 17/11/2025
A Dam Grows in Iron Age Jerusalem, Or, When the Levites Break 03/11/2025
The Puzzling Case of Children’s Rattles in Early Bronze Age Syria, or, Here Kid, Shake This, Mom and Dad are Working 20/10/2025
Banking on Silver Hoards in the Bronze Age Levant, or “Baby You are So Money You Don't Even Know it.” 06/10/2025
Does a Tiny Find Sort of Illuminate a Biblical Figure and Judean Bureacracy? or, Yedayahu, We Hardly Knew You 22/09/2025
The Tales Ancient Scripts Can Tell, If We could Only Decipher Them, Like the South Arabian Script a Guy Actually Did Decipher Recently, or, Love Languages Lost (and Found) 08/09/2025
The Two Faces of Hatshepsut’s Statues, or, Studies in the Archaeology of Iconoclasm and Pothole Repair 25/08/2025
Roman Pigs in Judea, or Close Encounters of the Swinish Kind 11/08/2025
© 2003-2025 ZARZA | AHEAD OF OUR TIME
privacy policy
In God we trust In God we trust
PreSales Questions? Click Here
or call our toll-free line at +1-888-5002068 Miami, Florida, USA