Ancient history
From Creolista!
Some recent finds:
Fall of Civilizations
Not sure how much ancient history I'll post on this site, but this podcast, called The Fall of Civilizations, is now watchable on a new YouTube channel. Only the first 8 episodes have been converted to videos as of this writing, the newer (and longer) podcasts (Aztec, Byzantine, Han) can be found on Soundcloud.
I won't embed the videos here, because for language learners it's always better to watch the video on youtube (after having clicked on CC -- on the lower right-hand side of the player -- to be sure you have the subtitles if you want them).
8. The Sumerians: Fall of the First Cities (published August 2020)
- 0:00 -- 5:00 The introduction sets the stage nicely with the story of an Italian who "rediscovered" cuneiform & the city of Ur.
- 23:15 -- theory of flood (origin? of Sumerians)
- 31:43 -- 34:06 Al Jazeera
- 35:08 -- (metals + mathematics 360°, 24h, 60m, etc.)
Scots Wikipedia
- Kieren McCarthy, "Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles", The Register, 26 August 2020.
Bardcore
- Alex Kelly, "The Rise of Bardcore", Medium, 18 July 2020.
