Living as a Regular Person in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Professor Anne Austin

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What was it like to be a regular person in ancient Egypt? What did people do when they got sick or injured? Professor Anne Austin is an Egyptologist and bioarchaeologist who studies health and disease using both texts and human remains, allowing us to answer questions about the bodily experience of ancient life in ways we never thought possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:06.2	Hi, everybody from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:19.3	I'm Patrick Weimann, thanks for joining me.
0:21.2	When we think of Ancient Egypt, the images that most immediately come to mind are associated
0:25.3	with its elite.
0:26.6	The pyramids were mummies or hieroglyphs on the walls of opulent tombs, things associated
0:31.3	with the highest ranks of society.
0:33.6	But the elite made up only a tiny percentage of the people living in Ancient Egypt at any
0:37.1	given time.
0:38.3	What about everybody else?
0:39.6	What about the people who built those tombs or grew the food that kept everybody fed?
0:43.6	What can we know about them?
0:45.3	The answer is, well, a heck of a lot, thanks to new approaches and cutting edge tools.
0:49.9	Today's guest is doing some incredibly cool work on the common people of Ancient Egypt,
0:54.2	and Austin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Missouri,
0:58.4	St. Louis.
0:59.4	She specializes in using human remains in conjunction with art and texts to better understand
1:03.3	health and disease in Ancient Egypt, focusing on the wonderful site of the Aiden Medina.
1:08.4	And she has also done some really innovative work on Ancient Tattooing.
1:11.6	Professor Austin, thank you so much for joining me.
1:14.2	Thank you so much for inviting me.
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