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Artifact Stories: Khufu’s itty, bitty ivory statuette
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
04/10/23 • 51 min
EPISODE 51 | We are producing a new series of episodes for Afterlives of Ancient Egypt called “Artifact Stories,” in which we choose one thing—be it art, artifact, architecture, etc.—and dive into the details in order to see what insights and perspectives we can draw from it. For each of these episodes we will be publishing a companion post on our Substack, Ancient/Now.
In our first spotlight discussion we are featuring an object whose diminutive size belies the significance of the story it tells about the reign of the 4th Dynasty king, Khufu (ca. 2589-2566 BCE), who most people know as the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. To see photos of the statuette, visit Ancient/Now.
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February Patreon Q&A
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
02/27/23 • 56 min
EPISODE 47 | This month's Patreon Q&A is a recording from our Live Zoom event on February 18th. This month's theme was gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.
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September Patreon Q&A
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
09/12/22 • 94 min
EPISODE 34 | In this month's Patreon Q&A, Kara and Jordan discuss how the Egyptian's relaxed in their free-time, the "true" effect Alexander the Great had on Egyptian culture, what life was like for the occupied under the Egyptian empire, and we give our recommendations on how to study hieroglyphs.
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Animals in Ancient Egyptian Society
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
06/12/24 • 58 min
In this episode Kara and Jordan discuss animals in ancient Egyptian society. What does the archaeological evidence tell us about the ancient Egyptians’ attitudes and practices towards non-human members of their society?
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There are many household animals; and there would be many more, were it not for what happens to the cats. When the females have kittened they will not consort with the males; and these seek them but cannot get their will of them; so their device is to steal and carry off and kill the kittens (but they do not eat what they have killed). The mothers, deprived of their young and desiring to have more will then consort with the males; for they are creatures that love offspring. And when a fire breaks out very strange things happen to the cats. The Egyptians stand round in a broken line, thinking more of the cats than of quenching the burning; but the cats slip through or leap over the men and spring into the fire. When this happens, there is great mourning in Egypt. Dwellers in a house where a cat has died a natural death shave their eyebrows and no more; where a dog has so died, the head and the whole body are shaven.
Oracular amuletic decree (ISAC, Chicago, Illinois)
Janssen, “Commodity Prices from the Ramesside Period” including animals
The Temple Cats of Philae Island Organization Facebook and Instagram
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December 2024 Supporter Q&A
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
12/31/24 • 47 min
Kara and Jordan answer supporters’ questions on the theme of “How do we study what we study?”
Show Notes
How do you study coffins?
Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian Royal Caches
How do we understand historicity in a literary text, like The Tale of Setne?
Great overview article by The Past
Golverdingen, Joost 2009. Khaemwaset: Demotic legend or the world's first Egyptologist? Saqqara Newsletter 7, 25-29.
Jay, Jacqueline E. 2016. Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 81. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Rutherford, Ian 1997. Kalasiris and Setne Khamwas: a Greek novel and some Egyptian models. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117, 203-209.
Snape (2011) ‘Khaemwaset and the present past: history and the individual in Ramesside Egypt’, in M Collier and S Snape (eds), Ramesside Studies in Honour of K A Kitchen (Bolton: Rutherford Press), pp.465-473.
Vinson, Steve 2018. The craft of a good scribe: history, narrative and meaning in the First tale of Setne Khaemwas. Harvard Egyptological Studies 3. Leiden; Boston: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004353107.
How do you teach Egyptology?
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)
Online Egyptological Bibliography
Ancient Near East Research Quarantine “Library”
ARCE Library Portal (needs membership)
Egytptological Open Access Journals
Texts in Translation
Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.
Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume II: The New Kingdom. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.
Lichtheim, Miriam 2006. Ancient Egyptian literature. A book of readings, volume III: The Late Period. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.
Body shaming (and positivity) in Ancient Egypt
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
10/10/22 • 101 min
EPISODE 35 | And we're back with our first episode of Season 3!! Kara and Jordan tackle the topic of body shaming (and positivity) in ancient Egypt. What were the "ideal" body types? How were people viewed who were outside those norms? What were their thoughts on aging, disability, thinness, thickness, etc? How do these differ from a modern Western ideal and what can we learn from the ancient Egyptians?
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Iconoclasm with Lexi Henning
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
10/02/23 • 73 min
EPISODE 64 | Kara and Jordan discuss iconoclasm in the ancient and medieval worlds with Lexie Henning, the host of the Ancient Office Hours podcast. Below is information about Lexie and some visuals! We include Aya Sofia, also called Hagia Sophia, a 6th century CE multi-domed church turned mosque turned museum turned back to mosque.
We also discuss the 13th century CE church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, which literally means St. Mary on top of (the goddess) Minerva, indicating a Christian claim over what is now defined as pagan.
Both Aya Sofia and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva were victims of iconoclasm, that is having elements of one belief system removed in favor of a different belief system. To that point, check out the removal of the god Amen’s name from a block in Luxor temple in the last image; this removal was ordered by Akhenaten, who was creating a whole new religious system that prioritized the visible sun god Aten.
Lexie is the host of the Ancient Office Hours podcast and Founder/CEO of The Ozymandias Project. She earned her BA in Classics from the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in 2018. Her scholarly interests are in exploring Classical reception through the lens of contemporary storytelling in media, advocating for open access to the ancient world, and making ancient studies applicable in the modern world. In January 2023, she completed an MSc in Southeast European Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, writing her thesis on the effects of Islamic iconoclasm on the Hagia Sophia and its impact on cultural heritage policy in Erdoğan’s Turkey. She now serves as the programs and administration coordinator for UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World.
Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
Santa Maria sopra Minerva (Rome, Italy)
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Personal Piety with Dr. Eric Wells
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
08/22/22 • 82 min
EPISODE 32 | In this week's episode Kara and Jordan interview Dr. Eric Wells of Eric's Guide to Ancient Egypt fame. We address the elephant in the room-- whether of not Eric has plans to restart his podcast, his dissertation research on personal piety, and get into some Egyptological debates.
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Dr. Eric Wells (he/him) received his PhD from UCLA in Egyptology and is currently an adjunct professor at LMU in the Department of Classics and Archaeology. He is also a chief administrative officer at UCLA for the Life Sciences Core Education Department and the Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences. You can check out his dissertation on votive stela from Asyut here.
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August Patreon Q&A
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
08/15/22 • 72 min
CW// alcohol, adult themes, violence and assault
EPISODE 31 | Kara and Jordan answer this month's Patreon Q&A's covering topics from alcohol use and drunkenness to leisure and play, sex workers, and allergies and health.
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Human Sacrifice in Early Dynastic Egypt with Dr. Rose Campbell
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney
01/17/22 • 55 min
CW// human remains; violence
EPISODE 15 | In our very first guest interview, we have UCLA's own Dr. Rose Campbell in to talk about how she became a bioarchaeologist and her work on human sacrifice in early dynastic Egypt. What evidence do we have for this practice? How are we to understand violence in the past? Stay tuned for Part I of a fantastic conversation! Show notes
More information about Dr. Campbell:
Dr. Roselyn A Campbell is a bioarchaeologist, anthropological archaeologist, and Egyptologist. Her current research is concerned with evidence for violence and trauma in human remains, and understanding how human societies define, use, and sanction violence as a tool of power. She also researches the history and evolution of cancer in ancient human remains. She earned a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. and an M.A. in anthropological archaeology and forensic anthropology at the University of Montana. Dr. Campbell has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, Peru, Ethiopia, Spain, and the western United States. She is currently the Head Osteologist for the Polish-Egyptian Mission at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, and for the North Asasif Project.
https://www.roselynacampbell.com/
https://getty.academia.edu/RoselynCampbell/
https://www.cancerantiquity.org/
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