Recently, I joined Bernie from the Fan of History & What’s New In History Podcast to talk about an AMAZING LiDAR survey of the Yucatan lowlands. We discuss life in the "Pre-Classic" Mayan world which is contemporary with such famous events in the Near East as the sack of the Elamite capital of Susa by Assyria, the destruction of the Temple of Solomon by the Babylonians, and the Greco-Persian Wars including the Battle of Thermopylae.
That, and the usual historical and philosophical observations found on What's New in History and History on Fire.