Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, June 13, 2022 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

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All right, we have a great one today.

Ooh, it's good.

It's so good.

Okay, I had the opportunity to sit down with remotely, of course, as always, Dr.

Kara Cooney. She is a professor of Egyptian art and architecture at UCLA. So we're going to talk about Egypt.

We're going to talk about ancient Egypt.

We're going to talk about her new book, The Good Kings,

absolute power in ancient Egypt and the modern world and we're going to talk in great detail about the

role of men, the role of women, the role of gender, and what this society look like you know from so long ago and how we can

really learn about our own society when we dig deep. So yeah let's do this you guys

without any further ado. Here she is Dr.

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