Big thank you to Bill, Temika, Tini, Amy and Danny.Ā All your support means the world to us! We hope to be back for another series as soon as possible, please subscribe and follow us on Patreon to make sure you do not miss an announcement. https://www.patreon.com/TalkLikeAnEgyptian Meanwhile do please check out our books. For those interested in Medieval England, Iszi has a new novel, The Domesday Cows coming out in January. Ā https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/domesday-cows-9781801996068/ Life! Prosperity! Health! Chris & Iszi x
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S01E07 King Tut ON FIRE
Tutankhamun is now very famous of course but ironically he was relatively insignificant right? We know that Tutankhamun was the 'boy king' and ruled as a child and so didn't - couldn't have - done muchā¦ In this episode we challenge this view, and show that in fact Tutankhamun ruled at the most interesting of times and may have been responsible for restoring the traditional religion after the brief period of heresy under Akhenaten. Ā Links: Ā Extra content: https://www.patreon.com/talklikeanegyptian Reeves,Ā Akhenaten: Egypt's false prophet Dodson, Amarna Sunrise (for the early part of Akhenaten's reign and the period immediately before it) and Amarna Sunset (for the later part f the reign and Akhenaten's successors including Tutankhamun. For a fictional adventure into the Valley of Kings: The Cursed Tomb: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cursed-tomb-9781801996020/
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S01E06 King Tut Part One
The greatest archaeological discovery of all time. Even now, it's difficult to comprehend the full extent of what Howard Carter found in Valley of Kings tomb no. 62: the intact tomb of a pharaoh who turned out to have been a little boy when he came to throne, and possibly still in his teens when he died, containing more than 5,000 objects, almost all of them made of the finest materials and exquisitely fashioned. It was watershed moment for Egyptology, and it's almost inconceivable that anything more sensational will ever be found in future. Ā Links: Extra content: https://www.patreon.com/talklikeanegyptian The last word on the subject, is Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun, a revised edition of which was produced in time for the centenary of the discovery in 2022. For an even more lavishly illustrated volume on the objects alone see Hawass, Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb The most thorough account of the life of the discoverer, Howard Carter, and the story of the discovery itself, is James, Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun For a fictional adventure into the Valley of Kings: The Cursed Tomb: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cursed-tomb-9781801996020/
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S01E05 Egyptomania
Why are we so obsessed with Ancient Egypt? All children study it, museum galleries displaying Egyptian objects are always full, documentaries always do really well, and we've had a couple of waves of Egyptomania ā in the 1800s and following the discovery of the tomb ofĀ Tutankhamun. We talked a lot in this episode about the historical background to the development of Egyptology, in particular colonialism and the rivalry between Britain and France. Also about how the aesthetic of Egyptian art and architecture is very distinctive and striking and so many other aspects of Egyptian culture are so intriguing including: mummies and mummification, animal-headed gods, the lure of the desert, and the idea that treasure is buried and awaiting discovery - 'revealing' things that are 'hidden'ā¦ Ā Links: Ā Extra content: https://www.patreon.com/talklikeanegyptian Ā Thompson, Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology (three vols.) And for a more concise, illustrated account we couldn't not mention ā sorry! ā Chris' book, Egyptologists' Notebooks. Ā On 'Egyptomania', see Brier, Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs Ā Chris's book for kids that gets mentioned this episode King Tutankhamun TellsĀ All! https://chrisnaunton.com/king-tutankhamun-tells-all/ Ā Iszi's book for kids which didn't get mentioned this episode The Cursed Tomb: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cursed-tomb-9781801996020/
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S01E04 The Pyramids
The pyramids, particularly those at Giza, are pretty famous right? In this episode we ask: What were they? Where were they? When were they? Were the all the same? (No). How did they differ, how did they develop? What was inside? Are you sure they're tombs? Not power stations or spacecraft? When weren't they? Why did the Egyptians stop building them? What's the significance of the shape? They had them in Mexico and elsewhere. They must have been connected right, come onā¦ Ā Links: Ā Extra content: https://www.patreon.com/talklikeanegyptian Ā The best concise overview of every aspect of the pyramids ā in Egypt and Sudan, their design, meaning etc is Lehner, The Complete Pyramids. Ā The author has spent an entire career working at Giza and he, along with the world's other leading expert on the site, has now published the last word on the pyramids there, also the sphinx and thousands of other monuments at the site: Lehner and Hawass, Giza and the Pyramids. This is a bog book and it's not cheap but it is indispensable for research on the site. Ā It's not the only reason why Chris became an Egyptologist but as a young Dr Who nut he liked nothing more than watching old serials on VHS, and The Pyramids of Mars from 1975 might just have helped nudge him in the right direction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00vf241/doctor-who-19631996-season-13-pyramids-of-mars-part-1 Ā Iszi's book (she's so needy) The Cursed Tomb where you go into The Pyramid of Unas: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cursed-tomb-9781801996020/
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