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 with video!
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes
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December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Episode 20 is now available with video!
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
With maps, reenactments and beautiful aerial footage, find out how the world of Achaemenid Persian empire rose, flourished and finally fell.
For Patrons I've finally put together a members-only RSS feed and dedicated Spotify channel, meaning that if you subscribe to Fall of Civs you can listen completely ad-free on any podcasting app you like.
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Find it below:
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5gqNqAC...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For Patrons I've finally put together a members-only RSS feed and dedicated Spotify channel, meaning that if you subscribe to Fall of Civs you can listen completely ad-free on any podcasting app you like.
Find it below:
RSS: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5gqNqAC...
Find it below:
RSS: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5gqNqAC...
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Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
![My photo shows a thin, rectangular, dark brown leaf of wood, which is broken in places. Across the surface are six lines of cursive Latin handwriting. The text is written in black ink which appears faded and faint. The Latin reads:
nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ
nimium multi ‣ equites
gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi-
tes ‣ nec residunt
Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos
mittant
Translated as:
… the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins.
On display at the British Museum.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiepntyce43pmmptw3xewwjw46tha2u4sqm7mptegttx5u2mqj527a@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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Cried over Aeschylus at the airport ✅
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cried over Aeschylus at the airport ✅
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
Since Christmas is coming up, we're doing another limited run of signed Fall of Civilizations books!
I can write a dedication to whoever you like, so it's the perfect gift for a Fall of Civs fan in your life... Hurry as I'm afraid supply is limited!
LINK: www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/fall-...
I can write a dedication to whoever you like, so it's the perfect gift for a Fall of Civs fan in your life... Hurry as I'm afraid supply is limited!
LINK: www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/fall-...
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Since Christmas is coming up, we're doing another limited run of signed Fall of Civilizations books!
I can write a dedication to whoever you like, so it's the perfect gift for a Fall of Civs fan in your life... Hurry as I'm afraid supply is limited!
LINK: www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/fall-...
I can write a dedication to whoever you like, so it's the perfect gift for a Fall of Civs fan in your life... Hurry as I'm afraid supply is limited!
LINK: www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/fall-...
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I'll be at the Folkestone Book Festival next week talking about Fall of Civilizations, my book and why societies rise and fall. Come and join me!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'll be at the Folkestone Book Festival next week talking about Fall of Civilizations, my book and why societies rise and fall. Come and join me!
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/pau...
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/pau...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
⛰️🏔️ 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...
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.
www.truthdig.com
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.”'