Ancient Art Podcast, Ancient Worlds

Hey folks! This is Lucas Livingston from the Ancient Art Podcast, serving up hot meals of antiquity since 2006 with a healthy side of smack! Yeah, that's right. 10 years. A good decade now. Going way back to when smartphones were still cool and your friends were telling you all about why you gotta join this Facebook thing. So I got 2 things I wanna tell ya now: 1. There’s this awesome class coming up at the the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute. It’s a 3-part series called "Drinking in Antiquity" and I’m teaching it. It’s on 3 Saturdays in 2016, October 8, Nov 12, and Dec 10. We’ll cover Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Mongolia and Central Asia, the Silk Road, and ancient Greece. We’re gonna visit the collections in the Oriental Institute and University of Chicago's Smart Museum, and we’re gonna get "experimental" with multiple ancient-inspired beer tastings. If you’re interested, visit ancientartpodcast.org/drink. 2. So, we're gonna try something different and change up the podcast. In a perfe