How Ancient Egypt Stayed Egyptian

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🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The length of time between the rule of Cleopatra and the erection of the Pyramids is the same as that between now and the birth of Jesus Christ. With that in mind, it is perhaps no surprise that some periods of Ancient Egypt fall beneath the radar. The Late Period of Ancient Egypt, however, is not without drama. These final centuries are characterised by repeated invasions and leadership by foreign rulers. Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster. He spoke to Tristan about the influence of external forces on Ancient Egyptian society from the Third Intermediate Period through the Late Period. This included Libyan, Assyrian, Persian and, notably, an Ancients’ favourite, the Macedonian Alexander the Great.

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0:00.0	It's the Ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and Happy New Year.
0:08.7	We are kicking off 2021 with a bang in this podcast because we have got on the show,
0:13.5	the one the only one of the greatest Egyptologists of our time, Dr. Chris Norton. In this podcast
0:20.5	we're going to be covering hundreds of years of ancient Egyptian history focusing on
0:24.8	the last millennium BC. This was a time when there was a lot of outside influence on Egypt.
0:31.9	But nevertheless we see Egyptian culture remaining strong. So we're going to be looking at the
0:38.2	Libyan influence. We're going to be looking at the 25th dynasty. We're going to be looking
0:42.4	at the Assyrians, the Persians and even the Macedonians. And this is a fantastic chat. We
0:49.4	cover topic stretching from the importance of powerful local officials that thieves during
0:53.9	the 25th dynasty all the way down to several hundred years later to the mysteries surrounding
0:59.8	the tomb and body of Alexander the Great. So without further ado, here is Chris Norton.
1:10.0	Chris Norton, it is an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you very much, Tristan.
1:14.6	Thank you for having me. Absolute pleasure to be here. Now we are focusing on Egypt at a time
1:20.2	when it bears witness to several significant invasions in its ancient history. Yeah, this is
1:25.9	a relatively, I think it's fair to say, if not little known, then lesser known time in Egyptian
1:32.1	history. It's easy to forget that ancient Egypt, the ancient Egypt of gods with animal heads and
1:38.8	hieroglyphs and pyramids and mummies and things, lasted for about three thousand years. And we know
1:43.6	some periods within that much better than others. But the last few centuries of that time are
1:50.2	characterized, at least in the top level politics, by repeated invasion and the influence of groups
1:56.4	of foreigners. And I find this very, very interesting, but it's underappreciated for one reason or
2:02.2	another. So I guess that's what we're going to explore today. Absolutely. And just before we start
2:06.3	something which is also seems really extraordinary from this period is how ancient Egypt's unique culture
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