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History Extra podcast

Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For more than 3,000 years, the ancient Egyptians adhered to a rich and complex system of beliefs, worshipping a vast pantheon of mighty – and often animal-headed – gods and goddesses. But how did this dynamic religion emerge? What was the pharaoh’s role in rituals? And what did the Egyptians believe happened to them after death? In our latest everything you wanted to know episode, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley speaks to Danny Bird to answer your questions on the mysteries surrounding religion in ancient Egypt. (Ad) Joyce Tyldesley’s books include The Penguin Book of Myth and Legends of Ancient Egypt (Penguin, 2011). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Myths-Legends-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0141021764/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hist298 The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, fascinating historical conversations from BBC History

1:10.2

Magazine and BBC History Revealed. For more than 3,000 years, the ancient Egyptians

1:22.6

are dear to a complex and rich system of beliefs, worshipping a vast pantheon of mighty,

1:29.7

often animal-headed gods and goddesses. But how did this dynamic religious system emerge?

1:36.6

What was the Pharaoh's role in rituals? And what did the ancient Egyptians believe happened

1:42.1

to them in the afterlife? In our latest, everything you want to know episode, Egyptologist

1:49.4

Joyce Tildsley, speaks to Danny Bird to answer your questions on the mysteries of religion in ancient

1:55.7

Egypt. Joyce, thank you very much for joining me today to discuss religion in ancient Egypt.

2:01.2

And I'd like to start us off by asking a very general question, which is what did the ancient

2:06.4

Egyptians believe in? Thank you for inviting me to talk on this subject. It's such an interesting

2:10.8

subject, but it's such a difficult one as well. As far as we can tell, all the Egyptians

2:16.7

worshipped some form of gods, but who you worshipped depended so much on where you lived and when

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