In this episode of 'Afterlives of Ancient Egypt,' we answer this month’s supporter questions about the Old Kingdom, debating the logistical and artefactual impacts of Egypt's unification on surrounding regions, the linguistic continuity from the Old to the New Kingdom, and much more.
Los Angeles Fire Relief
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Show Notes
Fighting Fire at the Getty Villa
Imhotep
* ARCE Post: Imhotep: A Sage between Fiction and Reality
Tales of Unification
* Wengrow, David, The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social transformations in North-East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 B.C., Cambridge University Press, 2006.
* Khaemwaset, the “first archaeologist”
The Mystery of the Sphinx
For more on the Sphinx debate and Khufu’s ivory statuette, check out Amber’s post and our earlier podcast episodes on this topic, “Khufu’s itty, bitty ivory statuette” and “Top 5 Debates in Egyptology (Part 1)”!
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