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.