Incest in Ancient Egypt
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
History Hit
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
From recent research we know that the great boy king Tutankhamun was a result of incest.
How did it effect him? And was incest in Ancient Egypt mostly for symbolic reasons of retaining power, or did it go further than that?
Joining Kate today is the wonderful Sarah Parcak, archaeologist and Egyptologist, to help us find out more. Importantly, they also touch on why the Ancient Egyptians found lettuce sexy.
This episode was edited by Tom Delargy and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my loveliest of lovely betwixtus how the hell are you it's me Kate Lister I am back once more for another episode of betwixt the sheets |
| 0:09.3 | But before we can get going I have to tell you that this is an adult podcast spoken by adults |
| 0:14.4 | to other adults about adulty things in an adulty way covering a range of adult |
| 0:17.5 | subjects and you must have to be an adult too and if you can't take all of those |
| 0:21.9 | boxes well just sod off but before you sod off if you could possibly do as the teeniest tiniest |
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| 0:41.6 | We could do it this year guys. We were so close last year and if you |
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| 0:59.7 | Okay, on with the show. It's November 1922 and we are deep in the valley of the kings. |
| 1:07.0 | What's taking place is about to change how we view ancient Egypt forever. |
| 1:15.0 | British archaeologist Howard Carter is poised at the entrance of a lost tomb |
| 1:20.0 | lit only by candlelight. |
| 1:22.0 | Personally, I wish you'd get a fucking move on because it's |
| 1:24.6 | cramped as hell back here. But as the ancient doorway creeks open the |
| 1:28.6 | candlelight illuminates a remarkable discovery of golden shrines and treasures which haven't seen the light of day or a candlelight for over 3,000 years. |
| 1:38.0 | This is Tooten-Karmun's tomb and it tells the story of King Tut, the 19 year old boy king who ruled his Pharaoh during the 18th dynasty. |
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