GETTING CURIOUS | Who Gave Ancient Egyptians Permission To Be So Advanced? with Dr. Kathryn Howley

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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New year, old curiosity: this week on Getting Curious, we’re traveling back in time to ancient Egypt with Dr. Kathryn Howley. She and Jonathan discuss what life might have looked like for ancient Egyptian hairstylists, royalty, and scribes; how ancient Egyptians interacted with neighboring cultures; and what it’s like for Egyptologists to analyze archaeological remains. Professor Howley is the Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is interested in how ancient peoples negotiated their interactions with other cultures through art and material culture, particularly Egypt and its southern neighbor Nubia in the first millennium BCE. As part of this interest she directs the Sanam Temple Project, which undertakes fieldwork at the 7th century BCE Egyptian-style temple of the Nubian King Taharqo at Sanam, Sudan. You can follow the Sanam Temple Project team’s latest fieldwork discoveries on Facebook @sanamtempleproject. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On our first episode back of the year, we are going to go way back in time with
0:17.1	Egyptologist Dr. Catherine Howley where I ask her who gave ancient Egyptians
0:22.1	permission to be so advanced?
0:24.3	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:28.2	I'm so excited to introduce our expert and our guests this week, Dr. Catherine Howley, you are an Egyptologist
0:35.0	and the assistant professor at IFA and NYU.
0:38.4	Welcome.
0:39.6	Thank you so much.
0:40.6	I'm really happy to be here.
0:41.4	Oh my gosh, I'm so excited that you're here. So you study ancient
0:47.0	cultures and civilizations in Egypt and what is currently Northern Sudan.
0:53.0	Absolutely, yes.
0:55.0	In the Nile Valley, basically, if we want to put it in more geographical terms.
1:00.0	Love, okay, the Nile Valley.
1:01.0	So I just want to kind of rewind a little teeny-weensy bit, geographically and time-wise for people to kind of get into the flow of like,
1:11.6	picture it, Egypt, Sudan, you know, the BCE of it all.
1:16.2	So then I pulled up a map of denial in Sudan.
1:21.2	So if anyone is not driving now and you want to pull this up on your thing, you can.
1:28.2	So I have it pulled up.
1:29.5	I'm just going to look at it just again really quick.
1:31.9	Okay, so when you say the fourth cataract of the Nile so as one of those the cataracts like
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