In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Egyptian priest, Manetho. After the Canaanites were expelled from Egypt, Manetho reports that they wandered the desert before establishing the city of Jerusalem.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Artemisia I of the Lygdamid Dynasty of Caria. Plutarch wrote that it was Artemisia who recognised the body of Xerxes' brother, Ariamenes, floating amongst the shipwrecks, and brought the body back to Xerxes.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Thutmose III. His victory at the Battle of Megiddo gave him control of northern Canaan from which he would launch his campaign into Syria to take Kadesh.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of the Oracle of Nuska, with the intent of discerning fact from fiction.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Lalibela. He commissioned the building of 11 rock-hewn churches to recreate the holy city of Jerusalem in his own kingdom, the Axumite Empire.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Šērūʾa-ēṭirat. She was the eldest daughter of Assyrian King Esarhaddon and the older sister of twins, Ashurbanipal and Šamaš-šuma-ukin, crown princes of Assyria and of Babylonia.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of King Za Besi Angabo, believed to be the founder of the Ag'azyan dynasty and the father of Axumite Queen Makeda

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Naqiya-Zakutu. She was the wife of King Sennacherib, mother of King Esarhaddon, and grandmother of Ashurbanipal of Assyria's final ruling dynasty, the Sargonid Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian, Strabo. He is best known for his Geographia, a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places in the world as known to him.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Sammu-Ramat, a powerful queen of the Assyrian Empire born c. 850 BC. Assyria was an ancient empire which stretched from Africa to the Persian Gulf.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Khakaure Senusret III, the son of Senusret II and Khenemetneferhedjet I and the fifth king of the Twelfth Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon of the Great. Her existence was rediscovered in 1927, with the excavation of the temple complex of Giparu the ancient city of Ur, birthplace of Abraham.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Menelik, son of King Solomon and Queen Makeda… the first king of the Axumite Kingdom.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Azadokht Shahbanu, a Sassanian queen from Iran, and daughter of king Khosrow II, who was overthrown and executed on 628AD by his own son Kavad II.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ay, the vizier of both Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and possibly also of Smenkhare.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madaki Hasa Askia, the Daughter of Emperor Askia Muhammad I (Askia the Great), the first ruler of the Askia dynasty of the Songhai Empire.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Ahmes, the Fifteenth Dynasty scribe who transcribed one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Idia, mother to Esigie who reigned as Oba (king) of the Edo people from 1504 to 1550.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Maya, Overseer of the Treasury during reigns of Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemheb in ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Khentkaus I, "Mother of Two Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt."

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Tutankhamun who reigned during ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Puabi who ruled the Mesopotamian city-state of Ur, birthplace of Abraham, around 2500 B.C. The lives of women in ancient Mesopotamia were regulated by a patriarchal hierarchy.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharoah Horemheb, the last king of the longest reigning ancient Egyptian dynasty.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Tiye, wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di, author of the Tarikh al-Sudan, History of the Sudan... a West African chronicle written in Arabic

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Kubaba, a Mesopotamian queen who ruled in the early days of the third dynasty of Kish during 2500–2330 BC, an ancient city-state of Sumer, Mesopotamia.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Elisha Cresques, a 14th-century Jewish mapmaker.

In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Ooni Luwo Gbagiba, she was the first and only female to take the crown of the Iwo Kingdom.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mansa Sundieta Keita. After his victory at Kirina, Mansa Sundiata established his capital at Niani. His sons went on to succeed him as Mansas of the Empire.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Sobekneferu, considered the first recorded female king of Egypt and last pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of 11th century Spanish Muslim geographer, Al-Bakri. His book, Roads and Kingdoms, gives us an early account of the ancient Soninke empire of Ghana.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Amanitore, the daughter of Kandake Amanishakheto and granddaughter of Kandake Amanirenas of the Kingdom of Kush.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Piye, the first of the Black Pharaohs who ruled Egypt. The 25th Dynasty's reunification of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Kush created the largest Egyptian empire since the New Kingdom.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lozen. She was a skilled warrior, shaman of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache born around 1840.

In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Taharqa, the third in a line of Kushite kings whose power extended from their native Nubia to the whole of Egypt, which they ruled as the pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Berber Queen Dihya fought against Islamic expansion in ancient Numidia Kingdom under the leadership of Hasan ibn al Nu'man.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pepi II Neferkare, the fifth king of Egypt’s 6th Dynasty and its longest reigning pharaoh.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Kandake Amanishakheto. She is remembered as a great queen of Kush and is known as a great warrior and pyramid builder; particularly at the Wad ban Naqa site that served as the seat of the Kushite/Nubian Kingdom.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Meryneith, an Egyptian High Priest during the reign of Pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Meryt Neith. She’s believed to be the earliest recorded female pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Akhenaten, the 14th-century pharaoh who brought change to the ancient Egyptian kingdom, including changing his name, the country’s religion and its capital.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Empress Taytu Beytul who prevented Ethiopia from being colonized, and founded its capital city Addis Ababa.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Imhotep who is credited with designing the first step pyramid in Egypt.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Menes who is credited with uniting Upper & Lower Egypt in the First Dynasty.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Queen Amina. She was a warrior and ruler of Zazzau, a Hausa city-state which dominated the trans-Saharan trade after the collapse of the Songhai empire in what is now Northern Nigeria. She led an army of 20,000 soldiers, conquering towns to the north and south in the Nu…

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Oranyan, the second prince of Ile-Ife, who made Oyo his new kingdom. According to Yoruba history, Oranyan founded Oyo around the year 1300 and one of his children, Eweka I, went on to become the first king of the Benin Empire.…

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Shaka Zulu. Before the ascendancy of King Shaka, Zulu referred to only one clan that recognized "Zulu" as its founding ancestor. After Shaka's mission of conquest and consolidation, the Zulu Empire’s population reached an estimated 250,000 and his state emerged as th…

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Makeda, Queen of Sheba who ruled the Axumite kingdom for more than 50 years. She traveled to Jerusalem to witness the fabled wisdom of King Solomon and bore him a son named Menelik, the first Imperial ruler of Ethiopia.…