2022-09-20 • 29 min
In this opening episode Cunk travels the world, heading down caves and up mountains in her search for Mankind’s first moments, and with the help of a variety of experts she explains how the earliest societies were formed: from the easier ones to spell like Rome and Greece, to the ones that are harder to spell, like Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Paul Bahn
Self - Archaeologist
Jim Al-Khalili
Self - Professor of Public Engagement in Science
Irving Finkel
Self - Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script
Eleanor Robson
Self - Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History
Joyce Tyldesley
Self - Professor of Egyptology, University of Manchester
Lyndsay Coo
Self - Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature
Myrto Hatzimichali
Self - Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Philosophy)
Douglas Hedley
Self - Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
John Man
Self - Historian / Author, The Great Wall
Nigel Spivey
Self - Senior Lecturer in Classics