And the The Egyptian History Podcast episode 8, that which I own.

Last week we examined the monuments of the fourth dynasty's third and fourth kings named

Jiddefray and Kaffre respectively.

Mortuary temples, the center of the funerary cult, which enlivened and supported the deceased

king's soul or car, were discussed, as well as the construction of a unique monument, the Great Sphinx.

This week, the episode is divided into two distinct sections.

In the second section, we continue our narrative history of the fourth dynasty and talk about

Men-Caure, the third of the Giza Pyramid Builders, and his legacy in Egyptian history.

In the first part, we open a discussion of economic matters, specifically land ownership,

and the extent to which individuals who were not the king could hold their own estates.

It's an economic discussion, and I realize that's not for for everyone so I'm going to try a new feature

Which I began to test last week and will start including more and more throughout the podcast

I will begin introducing small musical interludes to separate major points of discussion within each episode.

This may seem like a slightly unusual structure for a podcast.

Normally a history podcast will stick to one basic topic and if there is another big subject to be tackled they'll give it its own episode.

At first I thought that I would do that as well, but then I realized that the nature of Egyptian history

means that evidence for certain concepts like the economy or the role of women and deities

only began to appear in very specific historical and cultural contexts and cannot be divorced from them.

As a result, episodes of the Egyptian history podcast will begin to divide themselves between two sections with increasing regularity.

I'll cap the sections at two, otherwise we'd risk running overtime

and into information overload territory.

So in this first section we'll discuss aspects of the Old Kingdom Egyptian economy.

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