Here you’ll find summaries of each episode, helpful images and maps, plus all the links and references mentioned in the programme.
- Introduction: Hello! And welcome to Thin End of the Wedge
- Episode 1. Laith Hussein. Tell Harmal, heart of Eshnunna
- Episode 2: Jana Matuszak. Misogyny and the ideal Sumerian woman
- Episode 3: Richard Dumbrill. Music in Mesopotamia
- Episode 4: Gina Konstantopoulos. A demon haunted world
- Episode 5. Jacob Jawdat and Rients de Boer. Gardening on the frontline
- Episode 6. Paul Collins. Displaying the ancient Middle East in the 21st century
- Episode 7. Dahlia Shehata. Anzu: the many faces of a monster
- Episode 8. Saber Amiri Parian. Re-reading the Elamite version of Behistun
- Episode 9. Elisa Roẞberger. Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas
- Episode 10. Licia Romano. Death and burial in Sumer
- Episode 11. Carlos Gonçalves: The human face of Mesopotamian maths
- Episode 12. Gojko Barjamovic: International Trade
- Episode 13: Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology?
- Episode 14. Aaron Tugendhaft: Images, Idols And Iconoclasm
- Episode 15. Daniel Nicky: Teaching Mesopotamia through music
- Episode 16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project
- Episode 17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicine
- Episode 18. Carmen Gütschow: Archaeological conservation
- Episode 19. Shiyanthi Thavapalan: Colour in Mesopotamia
- Episode 20. Xiaoli Ouyang: Silver In Sumer: Money In Mesopotamia?
- Episode 21. Fabienne Huber Vuillet: Meanings From The Mundane
- Episode 22. Jaafar Jotheri: Wonderful waterways: the geo-archaeology of southern Iraq
- Episode 23. Heather Baker: Babylonian Houses And Housing
- Episode 24. Ariane Thomas: A Curator’s Life At The Louvre
- Episode 25. Adelheid Otto, Nicolò Marchetti, Ingolf Thuesen: ICAANE: archaeology coming together
- Episode 26. Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver: Hittite art
- Episode 27. Reinhard Pirngruber: Babylonian astronomical diaries
- Episode 28. Sophus Helle: 150 Years Of Gilgamesh
- Episode 29. Elena Devecchi, Stefano De Martino, Walther Sallaberger. Virtual Assyriology: RAI 67,Turin
- Episode 30. Elynn Gorris: Locating the Neo-Elamite kingdom
- Episode 31. Stefania Ermidoro: Revisiting a Victorian explorer: Layard in the archives
- Episode 32. András Bácskay: Fever!
- Episode 33. How Did We Get Here?
- Episode 34. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni: Urartu and digital public engagement
- Episode 35. Małgorzata Sandowicz: Law And Order In Babylonia
- Episode 36. Amir Al-Zubaidi: Nasiriyah Museum, And Engaging Iraqi Audiences
- Episode 37. Tim Clayden: The Kassites
- Episode 38. Tonia Sharlach: The Power Behind The Throne
- Episode 39. Saana Svärd: Digital Assyriology in Helsinki
- Episode 40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul
- Episode 41. Farouk al-Rawi: Reflections
- Episode 42. Julian Reade: Reflections
- Episode 43. Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem: Iraqi antiquities dealers of 19th century
- Episode 44. Sophie Cluzan: Votive statues from Mari
- Episode 45. Victor Klinkenberg: An archaeological approach to tablets
- Episode 46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals
- Episode 47. Louise Quillien: Textiles from Babylonia
- Episode 48. Amanda Podany: A new history of the ancient Near East
- Episode 49. George Smith: the man behind the headlines
- Episode 50. Dr Basima Jalil Abed
- Episode 51. Ali Al-Juboori: Reflections
- Episode 52. Birgül Öğüt: Phytoliths in west Asian archaeology
- Episode 53. Parsa Daneshmand: Consensus decision-making in divination
- Episode 54. Eckart Frahm: A new history of Assyria, the world’s first empire
- Episode 55. Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The historiography of assyriology
- Episode 56. Nicholas Reid: The Big House
- Episode 57. RAI 68: Looking forward to Leiden
- Episode 58: Looking back at RAI Leiden: on conferences, and catching up with guests
- Episode 59. Louise Pryke: Ishtar then and now
- Episode 60. Susanne Paulus: Back to School in Babylonia
- Episode 61. Shigeo Yamada: Yasin Tepe: on the margins of empire
- Episode 62. Prize-winning assyriology
- Episode 63: Enrique Jiménez: the electronic Babylonian Library
- Episode 64. Ali Kadhem Ghanem: Managing the site of Ur
- Episode 65. Omar N’Shea: Masculinities in Mesopotamia
- Episode 66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping Cuneiform
- Episode 67. Amy Gansell: Dressing Assyria’s queens
- Episode 68. Witold Tyborowski: Finding a job during Hammurabi’s reign
- Episode 69. Carolyne Douché: Carpology in the archaeology of ancient western Asia
- Episode 70. Simo Parpola and the State Archives of Assyria project
- Episode 71. 2024 IAA prize winners