Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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

"Roma: Reperti di età Romana tornano alla luce negli scavi per la metro a piazza venezia" "Rome: Finds of the Roman age come to light in the excavations for the metro in Piazza Venezia"

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!

Beauty of wild flowers next to stones in the ruins of the Roman city of Valeria. Cuenca.

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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That's just the news!

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.

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All murdered—for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court

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,

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

According to @fallofcivspod.bsky.social one of Genghis Khan’s sons used this strategy

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When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'

Every so often you do feel like a citizen of the Late Roman Empire watching Honorius worry about his chickens

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).

☀️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!

Thank you, that's very kind!

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...

Thank you Frank!

Brilliant, enjoy!

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.

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.

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-...

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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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.

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The Fall of Civilizations - Hatchards Piccadilly Join Paul Cooper to discuss his new book “The Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline” in conversation with Hetta Howes.

I'm going to be at Hatchards bookshop tomorrow in London, talking about the release of the Fall of Civilizations book. Come join me!

Date: 10 apr • 18:30

Location: 187 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE

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