Fall of Civilizations Podcast
@fallofcivilizations.com
A history podcast by @PaulMMCooper.com looking at a different collapsed society each episode.
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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.
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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November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
⛰️🏔️ 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.
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.
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Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!
October 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!
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Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!
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September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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...
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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.
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.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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.
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.
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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
📷 Rami Rizk
🏺 #archaeology
📷 Rami Rizk
🏺 #archaeology
August 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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
📷 Rami Rizk
🏺 #archaeology
📷 Rami Rizk
🏺 #archaeology
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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
August 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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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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!
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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!
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Beauty of wild flowers next to stones in the ruins of the Roman city of Valeria. Cuenca.
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Beauty of wild flowers next to stones in the ruins of the Roman city of Valeria. Cuenca.
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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
August 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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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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.
And none of them are happy in their own time.
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."
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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.
And none of them are happy in their own time.
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All murdered—for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court
June 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
All murdered—for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court
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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,
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,
June 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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,
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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According to @fallofcivspod.bsky.social one of Genghis Khan’s sons used this strategy
Man Cuts Back From 6 Normal Beers Per Day To 3 Huge Ones
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June 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
According to @fallofcivspod.bsky.social one of Genghis Khan’s sons used this strategy
'...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.
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June 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'
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Every so often you do feel like a citizen of the Late Roman Empire watching Honorius worry about his chickens
May 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every so often you do feel like a citizen of the Late Roman Empire watching Honorius worry about his chickens
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I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
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☀️We're giving away 5 special edition mugs, plus a free copy of the Sunday Times bestseller Fall of Civilizations! ☀️
To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social!
Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!
To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social!
Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!
May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
☀️We're giving away 5 special edition mugs, plus a free copy of the Sunday Times bestseller Fall of Civilizations! ☀️
To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social!
Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!
To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social!
Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!
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In this superb 2,000 year-old mosaic from Palestrina in Italy, men and women relax on cushioned benches in a latticed bower, drinking, reading and playing music in celebration of a flooding Nile, as a passing boatman gathers lotus blossoms www.smb.museum/en/museums-i...
May 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In this superb 2,000 year-old mosaic from Palestrina in Italy, men and women relax on cushioned benches in a latticed bower, drinking, reading and playing music in celebration of a flooding Nile, as a passing boatman gathers lotus blossoms www.smb.museum/en/museums-i...
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I enjoyed chatting to Flint Dibble about history, the Fall of Civilizations, and some of our mutual annoyances in the field. Catch it on YouTube at 7pm BST tonight.
The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social
We chat about real history, fake history, the romance of ruins, and what we can learn from the fall of past civilizations @fallofcivspod.bsky.social
Premiering tomorrow at 7pm UK/2pm EDT
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We chat about real history, fake history, the romance of ruins, and what we can learn from the fall of past civilizations @fallofcivspod.bsky.social
Premiering tomorrow at 7pm UK/2pm EDT
youtu.be/E3GXbg5L4e4
The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr. Paul M.M. Cooper (@FallofCivilizations)
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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April 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I enjoyed chatting to Flint Dibble about history, the Fall of Civilizations, and some of our mutual annoyances in the field. Catch it on YouTube at 7pm BST tonight.
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I'll be in Oxford tomorrow talking to @moudhy.bsky.social about history and Fall of Civilizations and signing books. Come join us!
Date: 22 apr • 17:30
Location: 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
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Date: 22 apr • 17:30
Location: 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
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Moudhy Al-Rashid and Paul Cooper in Conversation
Join us at this 'in conversation' event for a fresh and fascinating new look at the world and the birth of history.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'll be in Oxford tomorrow talking to @moudhy.bsky.social about history and Fall of Civilizations and signing books. Come join us!
Date: 22 apr • 17:30
Location: 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moudhy-al-...
Date: 22 apr • 17:30
Location: 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moudhy-al-...
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The brilliant bookshop.org are doing a promo where can now get the Fall of Civs book at 15% discount when checking out using promo code FALL15.
If you don't know them, they share their revenue with local bookshops. Bezos seething!
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If you don't know them, they share their revenue with local bookshops. Bezos seething!
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April 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The brilliant bookshop.org are doing a promo where can now get the Fall of Civs book at 15% discount when checking out using promo code FALL15.
If you don't know them, they share their revenue with local bookshops. Bezos seething!
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If you don't know them, they share their revenue with local bookshops. Bezos seething!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fall...
Basically yes
I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”
April 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Basically yes
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Really proud that Fall of Civilizations came in at number 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list today!
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.
April 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Really proud that Fall of Civilizations came in at number 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list today!
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.