23: Jerash: revealing the Peripheral

25: Urbicide, Killing the Cities

The death of a city is not always a deliberate destruction of a city through war. It is also a recurring disruption within longer urban histories in which human societies repeatedly erase, rebuild, and transform their built environments. This is the twenty-fifth and final episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into the fascinating world of past cities. This podcast is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. It is based on columns written by Rubina Raja and Søren Sindbæk, originally published in Current World Archaeology magazine. Find out more at the-past.com. The research is based on work conducted at the DNRF-funded Center for Urban Network Evolutions, based at Aarhus University. Thanks to Matthew Symonds of CWA. Idea development by Rubina Raja, Sine Saxkjær, and Julia Steding. Logo design by Sine Saxkjær. Produced by Videnslyd and hosted by Eleanor Quasebarth Neil.

24: Facing the Palmyrenes

Palmyra’s funerary portraits allow us to gaze upon a desert city’s elite and explore how they used sculpture to negotiate identity, power, and change across centuries of trade and empire. This is the twenty-fourth episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into the fascinating world of past cities. This podcast is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. It is based on columns written by Rubina Raja and Søren Sindbæk, originally published in Current World Archaeology magazine. Find out more at the-past.com. The research is based on work conducted at the DNRF-funded Center for Urban Network Evolutions, based at Aarhus University. Thanks to Matthew Symonds of CWA. Idea development by Rubina Raja, Sine Saxkjær, and Julia Steding. Logo design by Sine Saxkjær. Produced by Videnslyd and hosted by Eleanor Quasebarth Neil.

23: Jerash: revealing the Peripheral

Excavations at Jerash’s “peripheral” Northwest Quarter reveals how everyday domestic life, industry, and innovation were woven into the city’s fabric before being abruptly frozen by the earthquake of 749 AD. This is the twenty-third episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into the fascinating world of past cities. This podcast is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. It is based on columns written by Rubina Raja and Søren Sindbæk, originally published in Current World Archaeology magazine. Find out more at the-past.com. The research is based on work conducted at the DNRF-funded Center for Urban Network Evolutions, based at Aarhus University. Thanks to Matthew Symonds of CWA. Idea development by Rubina Raja, Sine Saxkjær, and Julia Steding. Logo design by Sine Saxkjær. Produced by Videnslyd and hosted by Eleanor Quasebarth Neil.

22: Unboxing Palmyra

Archaeology can be transformed through archival research. Like the unboxing of Harald Ingholt’s Palmyra archive, it can reveal how stored notes, photographs, and drawings preserve and reshape the study of an ancient desert city. This is the twenty-second episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into the fascinating world of past cities. This podcast is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. It is based on columns written by Rubina Raja and Søren Sindbæk, originally published in Current World Archaeology magazine. Find out more at the-past.com. The research is based on work conducted at the DNRF-funded Center for Urban Network Evolutions, based at Aarhus University. Thanks to Matthew Symonds of CWA. Idea development by Rubina Raja, Sine Saxkjær, and Julia Steding. Logo design by Sine Saxkjær. Produced by Videnslyd and hosted by Eleanor Quasebarth Neil.

21: Urban Jungle

The suburbs and their sprawl might feel like a modern development, but recent archaeological research suggest that cities and countryside often blended into something known as “patch urbanism.” This is the twenty-first episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into the fascinating world of past cities. This podcast is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. It is based on columns written by Rubina Raja and Søren Sindbæk, originally published in Current World Archaeology magazine. Find out more at the-past.com. The research is based on work conducted at the DNRF-funded Center for Urban Network Evolutions, based at Aarhus University. Thanks to Matthew Symonds of CWA. Idea development by Rubina Raja, Sine Saxkjær, and Julia Steding. Logo design by Sine Saxkjær. Produced by Videnslyd and hosted by Eleanor Quasebarth Neil.