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Hello and welcome to the history extra podcast from BBC History Magazine,

Britain's best selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthon. Today's episode is the latest in our everything you wanted to know series,

where expert historians respond to popular online search queries and questions that you've

submitted via our social media channels. Today we're speaking about daily life in ancient Egypt

with Professor Joyce Tildsley. Joyce is an Egyptologist who teaches a number of online courses

from Manchester University and she's also the author of several books on ancient Egypt,

including Nefertiti's face, the creation of an icon. Putting your questions to Joyce was Kev Lottchen,

Deputy Editor of BBC History revealed and Digital Section Editor on History Extra.

Welcome to POC Us, Joyce. Oh, thank you for inviting me.

As with all of our everything you want to know, pods, the topics we're going to be talking about are

based on questions submitted by you, our listeners and the top Google search queries.

So Joyce, today we're talking about daily life in ancient Egypt and I wondered maybe just to start

off, we could do a little bit of scene setting and maybe could you give us a kind of brief chronology

of when we say ancient Egypt, when we're talking about and the sense of that geography of where ancient

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