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And one more resource with the history of many civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast

I especially enjoyed https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA, as I had no idea the first cities were already so advanced and lasted for so many centuries.

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Whenever someone mentions the age of Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids, it's fun to point out that we have tax records from Sumeria from before either of those.

I've watched all the Fall of Civilizations episodes because they are really well done. An amazing amount of work went into them to good effect. I am not a historian so I can't judge if they are alt-history or not, like the episode "Easter Island - Where Giants Walked" which completely refutes Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and the theory that the inhabitants destroyed their environment.

Thoroughly enjoyed these. There is the tv version (not podcast) with nice video alongside each of the current podcasts. Sometimes they release a podcast and it takes a month or two for the tv one to come out.

I'm watching the second link. Very very well made.

It's astonishing to me that there's so much high-quality stock footage of the area that someone can create such a high-quality historical documentary while only calling it a "podcast".

This podcast/series is so intensely good it is hard to describe to people. Partially because it is devoid of any commercial intent, it's simply raw history presented in an extremely accessible digest.

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