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There won't be a new narrative episode this week.

The Battle of Kadesh was a mammoth undertaking, and I'm a little bit beat.

Hopefully you are enjoying, or enduring,

that quadruple-length offering and absorbing the tales of a most dramatic conflict. We'll pick up with Ramesses and the Egyptian armies next week. In the meantime, I wanted to alert you to two things.

Firstly, I recently did an interview with the Autocrats podcast. This is a podcast

devoted to Roman history, but I recently sat down with the host Vince to discuss some of the

influence of ancient Egyptian history on the later Roman traditions, and of course the Roman Empire

within Egypt, and how cultural norms from the time of the

pharaohs persisted during that foreign occupation. The conversation ran for about an hour and a

quarter, and we went from the very beginnings of Egyptian history and the mythological creation,

all the way up to the Roman imperial era. So it's a pretty wide-ranging and detailed conversation.

I've included a snippet of this interview after these announcements,

so if you'd like a taster, that will be in just a moment.

Additionally, Dr. Colleen Darnell, commonly known as the vintage Egyptologist,

will be joining us soon on the

podcast to discuss ancient Egyptian historical fiction, when scribes would compose tales about

the pharaohs, generals, and military exploits from the New Kingdom era.

Colleen has asked me to alert you to her series of online classes, which she runs regularly

via Zoom on a variety of topics.

On August 21, Dr. Darnell will be running a talk about Ancient Egypt at the movies,

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