Hello, welcome again to Kathy Ganser's focus. I am Cy Kelle, your host and delighted again to

Jimmy Aiken, senior apologist here at

Catholic Gancers for another of these kind of looks back into the history of the world

as it relates to the Bible times and the Bible people. Jimmy, welcome back again.

Thank you, Sigh. Jimmy, as you know, is the podcaster behind Jimmy Aiken's

Mysterious World, so you can follow him there there and he's also the author of many books

which you can find at our website shop.catholic.com.

Okay so we've been talking about the Egyptians and they are certainly very important in the Bible.

But then later emerges this other people who also become,

they become more important in the New Testament, the Romans a bunch of upstarts those

upstart Romans right well that we so before we even start on the Romans then by the time

the Romans come around what what's Egypt like?

So let's just dispose of Egypt.

Is Egypt still there?

Well, it's still here today.

Oh, that's good.

I've been there a couple times.

I mean, like this kingdom of Egypt or what, like what do they find there?

Well, okay, so Egypt, you know, we mentioned in a previous broadcast how Egypt's history is kind of segmented.

There's what's called the Old Kingdom, which is when the pyramids were built, then things fall

apart, we have the first intermediate period, and they get everything back on track and we have

what's called the Middle Kingdom and then things fall apart again, we have a second intermediate

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