Browse the Mesopotamian era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how sounds turned into signs and signs became the alphabet.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.