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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Ep 760 | Digging Around History | Guests: Ann Williams and Kara Cooney

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

THE GOOD KINGS Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World Author KARA COONEY , Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA, also wrote When Women Ruled the World (2018) and The Woman Who Would be King (2014). She produced Out of Egypt on Discovery… From Khufu, the man who built the Great Pyramid at Giza as testament to his authoritarian reign, and Taharqa, the last true pharaoh who worked to make Egypt great again, we discover a clear lens into understanding how power was earned, controlled, and manipulated in ancient times. And in mining the past, Cooney uncovers the reason why societies have so willingly chosen a dictator over democracy, time and time again. THE STORY OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION THROUGH 100 KEY EXPEDITIONS LOST CITIES, ANCIENT TOMBS NatGeo editor and archaeologist, Ann R Williams, tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that illuminate our past – from the terracotta warriors escorting China’s first emperor into the afterlife to graves of the Scythians, the real Amazon warrior women, to new findings on the grim fate of the colonists of Jamestown. She specializes in ancient Egypt and is learning to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.   Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy / Promo code jeffy… Email Chewingthefat@theblaze.com www.shop.blazemedia.com Promo code Jeffy20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Please radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

0:06.2

Welcome to chewing the fat.

0:07.4

I know we're headed into Thanksgiving weekend, so I wanted to just share a couple of interviews

0:12.5

that I did and fascinating interviews.

0:15.6

This one is with Cara Coney, the Good King's absolute power in ancient Egypt and the modern

0:22.6

world.

0:23.6

And just sit back and listen to Cara as she describes the reasons why societies have

0:29.9

so willingly chosen a dictator over democracy, time and time again.

0:36.4

As she searches throughout every former king in the world, I want to be king.

0:52.2

Cara Coney.

0:54.2

So the best-selling author.

0:56.1

And as it says here, dynamic speaker, professor of Egyptian art and architecture at UCLA.

1:04.0

And specializing in one of the things that's listed in the specialization list is coffin

1:11.0

studies.

1:12.0

So before we talk to you about your new book, The Good Kings, which I want to know if

1:17.7

there actually is a good king.

1:22.1

What is coffin studies and how do I become a professor of it?

1:26.7

I know, is that the coolest thing ever?

1:29.1

I put a coffin in front of me and I can be like 19th Dynasty, 19 and a half, 21st Dynasty.

1:35.5

That is awesome.

1:36.5

That is awesome.

1:39.7

So I grew up in Houston, Texas where things are super socially competitive and people would

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