Kings, Images, and Violence in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Professor Laurel Bestock
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
4.8 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kings are one of the constants of ancient Egypt's long history. But what, exactly, were kings supposed to do, and how did ancient Egyptians understand the role of their king? Professor Laurel Bestock is one of the world's leading experts on the institution of kingship in ancient Egypt, as well as an experienced archaeologist, and she brings several fascinating viewpoints to help us understand the central role of the pharaoh.
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| 0:06.2 | Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Patrick Weiming, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:24.1 | For a lot of us I think Ancient Egypt was the thing that pulled us into being interested |
| 0:27.9 | in the ancient world more generally. |
| 0:29.9 | It's ubiquitous in both popular portrayals of history and in pop culture. |
| 0:33.6 | Who hasn't seen a picture of the pyramids or a mummy? |
| 0:36.1 | Pretty much everybody with any exposure to the ancient world knows how reglyphics when |
| 0:39.4 | they see them, more Tutankhamlin's golden mask. |
| 0:42.4 | But as we actually start digging into Egypt's past, there's so much more to it than any |
| 0:46.1 | popular portrayal could ever convey. |
| 0:48.5 | The sheer scale of time in ancient Egypt is mind-boggling. |
| 0:51.6 | A greater period separates the construction of the Great Pyramid from Tutankhamlin's burial |
| 0:55.4 | in the Valley of the Kings and separates Tutankhamlin from Alexander the Great. |
| 0:59.8 | Because of all that time and a sheer richness of the written and archaeological records, |
| 1:04.3 | there's just so much more to know about ancient Egypt than any layperson could imagine. |
| 1:08.1 | To help us understand ancient Egypt and what made it tick, what we might call its prevailing |
| 1:12.0 | ideologies, we've got a fantastic guest with us today. |
| 1:15.5 | Professor Laurel Bestock is associate professor of archaeology in the ancient world and |
| 1:19.0 | Egyptology and a seriology and associate professor of history of art and architecture |
| 1:23.4 | at Brown University. |
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