Oh hey it's the guy at the gym using a foam roller on his IT band and trying not to cry.

Allie Ward and here we are we are approaching antiquity.

This episode rolls us right in a spook over where we cover everything for bats to

pumpkins to dancing spiders and this month we got

you set up with everything from candy history to critters to this one this is momiology

it's the study of human preservation in ancient Egypt and also staggering children wrapped in toilet paper down your street.

Now if you're thinking you've heard this one, think again, you didn't, one of our guests is so charismatic and learned, we have the pleasure of bringing

her back to chat about her new work. She's got this book called Recycling for Death,

Coffin reuse in ancient Egypt and the Thebian Royal caches.

So she's a professor of Egyptian art and architecture at UCLA.

She's written several books about Egyptian history.

She's been featured in many documentary programs about death rituals in Egypt and published books including the good kings

when women ruled the world the six queens of Egypt and the woman who would

be king

had Shepsoid's rise to power in ancient Egypt.

She's one of the world's finest experts

in Egypt and Egyptian coffins.

Now, this is a special episode.

We have a second guest. This is a two-par, this is a bogo, and it's a two-parter with two experts whose work intersects.

And our second human gem we have is a Cairo-based professor of Egyptology and

archaeology at the American University in Cairo. She's also been a visiting

professor at Yale University. She's authored several books about ancient Egypt, some for young readers,

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