Ancient/Now
Kara Cooney, Jordan Galczynski, Amber MyersHistory isn’t repeating itself; history is now
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 260 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 25 days ago |
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Is everything you know about mummies wrong?
I just did a podcast with Dr. Jordan Jones on the Bible and Archaeology Podcast, which was great fun. We talked all things ancient Egyptian mummification, and I explain how this was a rich-person-only affair. Mummification was a social sepa...
The Real Housewives of Deir el-Medina
It’s March. Well, it was March a minute ago, which means Women’s History Month, which we think should continue until we have Matriarchy, so Afterlives is featuring a lesser-known Egyptian woman who weathered multiple husbands, dealt with sp...
Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian Soul: The Ka
In this episode Kara and Amber continue their series on the ancient Egyptian anatomy of the self by exploring the ka—often translated as a “life force,” but an element far more complex than that simple phrase suggests. Drawing on textual ev...
Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian soul: The Ba
What, exactly, makes a person a person? In this episode, Kara and Amber launch a new series exploring the anatomy of the ancient Egyptian soul. They begin with the ba—often translated as “soul,” but far stranger and more powerful than that...
The Old Man and the Sun: Sex, Death, and the Turin Erotic Papyrus
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**Content and trigger warning: This episode contains images of sex and discussion of sexual themes, sexual abuse and exploitation, incest, and other related topics that might be inappropriate or upsetting to some lis...
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Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA specializing in craft production, coffin studies, economies in the ancient world, and systems of power. The views expressed here are my own.
PhD candidate of Egyptology @UCLA, crazy cat lady and lover of good food and travel
Director for a production company of expert ancient history consultants with an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (UCLA). Previously worked in museum administration and education at LACMA, the Getty Villa, and Art Muse Los Angeles.
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