Amanda H Podany

Professor Emeritus of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Amanda H Podany is professor emeritus of history at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Her latest book is Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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Ancient cuneiform script inscribed on a worn, rectangular clay tablet set against a black background.

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Archaeology

What the tablets say

Some 3,700 years ago, an enslaved girl, a barber, and a king crossed paths in a city by the Euphrates. This is their story

Amanda H Podany