The History of History | How Humanity Learned to Remember the Past

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-03

Fall asleep to the surprising history of how humanity learned to remember the past — from stories carried by human voices and marks pressed into clay to archives, photographs, recordings and digital files. Tonight’s journey begins before writing, when memory had to pass from one person to another. From there, we follow the development of writing in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica, and the changing ways societies tried to preserve names, events, rulers, stories and records across generations. Along the way, we encounter selective royal histories, Herodotus and Thucydides weighing uncertain testimony, Sima Qian organising an enor...