Episode 107 - A Very Brief Intro to Ancient Egyptian Archaeology

This week, Amber and Anna bring you three of the best-known archaeological sites from Ancient Egypt. These sites tell us a whole lot about life in the past--not just for the pharaohs and the elites, but the workers who built them. We also dip our toes into Ancient Egyptian cosmology and zip through the dynastic timeline!

To learn more, check out:

When French Savants Were on the Nile (New York Times)

Victorian Egyptomania: How a 19th Century fetish for Pharaohs turned seriously spooky (History Answers)

Digital Giza (The Giza Project at Harvard University)

Status and Diet at the Workers' Town, Giza, Egypt (Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology)

Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed (Live Science)

Labor and the Pyramids The Heit el-Ghurab “Workers Town” at Giza (via Academia.edu)

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (The Griffith Institute)

King Tut: The Teen Whose Death Rocked Egypt (National Geographic)

Ancient Egypt: A Brief History (Live Science)

Ancient Egypt, an introduction (Khan Academy)

Egyptian Gods - The Complete List (Ancient History Encyclopedia)

Excavations at Deir el Bahri, 1911–1931 (Nature) 

Deir el-Bahri (Artefacts of Excavation)

Pharaoh Hatshepsut's Temple of Deir el-Bahri in Egypt (ThoughtCo)

Lessons in Tree Care from Ancient Egypt (AWA Trees)