From the Vault: Vintage Egyptology, with Colleen Darnell
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Egyptologist, author and educator Colleen Darnell about ancient Egyptian religion, warfare and of course vintage fashion. (originallt published 7/31/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:14.0 | We have a classic episode here for you today. |
| 0:16.0 | It originally published 731, 2025. |
| 0:18.8 | It is my interview with Egyptologist, author, and educator |
| 0:22.1 | Colleen Darnell about ancient Egyptian |
| 0:24.0 | religion, warfare, and of course, |
| 0:26.3 | vintage fashion. This is a real fun |
| 0:28.4 | chat, so let's go ahead and jump right |
| 0:30.6 | into it. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, |
| 0:36.6 | a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:44.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:46.5 | My name is Robert Lamb, and today I'm chatting with Egyptologist Dr. Colleen Darnell, author and co-author of multiple books on ancient Egypt, who many of you may know from her vintage Egyptologist Instagram account, that's vintage underscore Egyptologist, and her popular Zoom classes on various Egyptology topics. So without further ado, let's jump right into the interview. |
| 1:13.1 | Hi, Colleen. Welcome to the show. Hello. I'm so happy to be here. A lot of your work, you know, I'm thinking about your excellent Instagram feeds, but also your Zoom classes. This work is aimed at making learning about hieroglyphics and ancient Egypt more accessible. |
| 1:28.9 | How did these projects come together and how's it going? |
| 1:32.1 | I have always felt like one of my main goals as an academic is to take all of my research, |
| 1:37.6 | to take the scholarship that has been done in Egyptology for well over 100 years and make it |
| 1:43.7 | something that people can understand while |
| 1:46.5 | at the same time not leaving off the nuance. I feel like a lot of times things get over simplifying |
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