About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of Iron Age Hazor's geopolitical landscape and the unaffected nature of cows grazing across borders.

Iron Age Hazor sat in the middle of a complicated geo-political situation: Aram-Damascus to the north, the Phoenicians to the northwest, and Israel to the south. This made no difference to cows, who were taken to graze all over regardless of what the map said. Of course, they couldn’t read maps. Except maybe cow 5754. Suspicious. With a host of bovine reminiscences from your hosts!

Topics covered

• Iron Age
• geo-political situation
• cattle grazing
• bovine reminiscences
• ancient history

Keywords

• Iron Age
• Hazor
• cows
• bovine
• geopolitics
• Aram-Damascus
• Phoenicians
• Israel

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iron Age Hazor, Aram-Damascus, Phoenicians, Israel

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