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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 2d

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⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now available for all subscribers! 🏔️⛰️

In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.

20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes **Now available for subscribers!** | Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 28d

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 28d

Thanks Val, that means a lot!

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 28d

Thanks Josh, really glad you liked it!

Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 28d

Hope you enjoy!

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 28d

Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!

Me sitting at my desk with a microphone.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 23

Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!

LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...

Image of the Fall of Civilizations cover, with Waterstones Paperback of the Year written beside it.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · Sep 1

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.

In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

Onlookers queue up to view the excavations of Caligula's ancient Roman vessels, known as the Nemi ships 1932.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 23

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2

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🏺 #archaeology

Close-up aerial view of the so-called Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, showing its massive colonnade with well-preserved Corinthian columns, surrounding ruins with fallen stones and walls, and green fields in the background.

Aerial view of the ancient Roman temple complex of Baalbek in Lebanon, showing the massive so-called Temple of Bacchus with its well-preserved colonnade, the remains of the Temple of Jupiter with scattered giant stone blocks, and surrounding ruined walls and courtyards. The site is set within a green landscape with trees, fields, and modern houses in the background under warm sunlight.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Aug 7

The remains of the south west turret of Aesica Roman Fort (Great Chesters) on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. The fort was built in around AD 128, the ninth fort built along the line of the Wall. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall #Northumberland

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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excavations at Rome ahead of a new subway route have found a Roman-era street preserved nearly as well as parts of Pompeii, some walls still with remains of plaster!

"Roma: Reperti di età Romana tornano alla luce negli scavi per la metro a piazza venezia"

"Rome: Finds of the Roman age come to light in the excavations for the metro in Piazza Venezia"

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Pipa @pipapipia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Beauty of wild flowers next to stones in the ruins of the Roman city of Valeria. Cuenca.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 3

On a hill in Tuscany, the spectacular Castello di Sammezzano was originally constructed in Moorish style in 1605 as a private palazzo, later used as 365-room luxury hotel, then abandoned for a number of years until recent eye-boggling restorations

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · Aug 3

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · Jul 8

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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's hilarious. 3rd C authors look back to the glory days of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius looks back to the glory days of Trajan. People in Trajan's day look back to Cicero. Cicero looks back to Cato the Elder. Cato looks back beyond them all.

And none of them are happy in their own time.

Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · Jul 7

There's this great thing about reading thinkers and philosophers and historians from the past -- they are *always* sure that things were a lot better a few generations ago. You never find anyone writing, "Gosh, the world these days is the best it's ever been."

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · Jun 15

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 14

All murdered—for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 14

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
How some have been depos’d, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d,

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TTTK @archivedspork.bsky.social · Jun 3

According to @fallofcivspod.bsky.social one of Genghis Khan’s sons used this strategy

The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 3

Man Cuts Back From 6 Normal Beers Per Day To 3 Huge Ones
theonion.com/man-cut...

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · Jun 6

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · Jun 6

'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'

When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig

The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

www.truthdig.com

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · May 23

Every so often you do feel like a citizen of the Late Roman Empire watching Honorius worry about his chickens

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