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EGYPTOLOGY: call for questions! (Patreon)

Published:
2018-05-25 00:04:35
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2018-05

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Interviewing the amazing Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney -- any questions welcome. Her field of interest is coffins but I'm sure she has opinions ON all things Egyptology. 

STOKED FOR THIS ONE. 

Comments

iolanthe

Cat worshipping!

iolanthe

Cleopatra! And her beauty (why's that important?)

Gary Jungling

Is Ben Carson right about pyramids being grain storage facilities or are they just alien power plants like everybody suspects.

Justin

What’s your favorite Egyptian myth?

Gary Jungling

Oh also the Sphinx, this is an old lion Statue from a pre Egyptian society when the Sahara wet forest, right?

Jennifer Buz

do you want to be mummified? (question goes for guest and Alie both)

Rachel Lynn

Were female leaders really as few and far between as we've been led to believe, considering goddess worship was quite prominent?

Rachel Lynn

What's the fanciest coffin? Sarcophagus? She's ever seen? What's her favorite?

John Worster

Did climate change contribute to the downfall of the Egyptians?

Mara Spensieri

Do you spend time researching conspiracy theories about the pyramids or do you find that all ridiculous?

Topher

How amazing was the Rosetta Stone? What would our knowledge of hieroglyphics look like without it?

Maren Mossman

Do you love/hate movies like The Mummy?

Ashish Panse

Does the placement of the three pyramids in Giza really mirror the Orion's belt?

Mikey

What is the significance of hieroglyphics on coffins? Are they blessings? Eulogies? An in depth description of everything inside?

Not-Poignant/Pia Foxhall

How do you feel about religious reconstructionists who practice things like Kemetism and/or Egyptian Neopaganism? Do you get questions from people wanting to make their practices more accurate?

Tyler Q

I've heard that the Rosetta Stone is ancient tax paperwork. Why would something like that have been written in three seperate languages?

Tracy Benhamou

We’re there ever any meanings attached to the different wrapping styles that were performed on mummies or did the styles change just due to time and tradition? How about animals were different wrap styles done on different animals. Plus can you get Alie to see me as her dentist? I’m offering free dentistry for life if she would only be my friend. Really...

Jessica Bomgardner

What are the need to knows and realities of visiting ancient Egypt today? I.e. can we even?

Natasha Bharj

Is it true that Europeans altered/hid parts of artifacts to obscure the ethnicity of Ancient Egyptians (e.g. the nose of the Sphinx)?

Christa Avampato

We hear so much about Greek and Roman mythology. Could you tell us a bit about Egyptian mythology? Why do we hear less about it? Are there big differences from and significant similarities to the Greek and Roman versions?

Ali Blackwood Mead

How many new discoveries are being made about aincent Egypt still today? Are we coming to the end of what there is to discover - or have we hardly uncovered the tip of the iceberg of what there is to know? Have you personally been involved with any big discoveries?

Julie K. Rose

I would love to know about the uses of perfumes and incense in daily life and in spiritual contexts. (Also the British Museum just posted a video on their YouTube channel in which they brew beer from an Egyptian recipe and based on items found in their collections and it's AWESOME check it out people)

April

EGYPTOLOGY has been my favorite thing since childhood!! What is the most random/unexpected thing you’ve learned so far?

April

What is the most false thing portrayed in mummy/Egypt movies and television?

Cody Woppenkamp

Old mustachioed British scientists, going full on tomb raider in ancient Egyptian sites. Pros or cons? Did they mess up? Or did the science they preform do modern scientists proud.

radishcake yarns & fibers

We’re the guts pulled out of people before mummification preserved in anything? Or did they just rot in those jars?

David Sinnett

​Hey there, I truly enjoyed "Out of Egypt." I wish the episodes were easier to find from a streaming source. My question is about Nefertiti: What do you think happened to her? Did she become Pharaoh Smenkhkare?

Katie Cobb

Legally, if you were a crazy baller eccentric billionaire, could you be buried like a pharaoh in the United States?

Greg

How do Egyptologists make sense of the way ancient Egyptians regarded time, particularly in determining the specific ages of historic sites like the pyramids? Seems like they did not really document things by "years" or in a real metric sort of way? How did Egyptologists decipher which rulers were real versus fictional?

Irene B

What is the best ancient Egyptian murder story ? What is the weirdest mummy ever found? What are the most recent discoveries about Queen Nefertiti ?

Paula Herrera

My friend Rachel wants to know your opinion on the whitewashing of ancient Egyptians in modern popular culture? And also, is it a frustrating for Egyptologists that pop culture focuses so much on Cleopatra when there are so many other interesting female figures in Egyptian history?

Lindsey

What are the ethical considerations that museums have to address when they display sarcophagi and related items? Are there standards that guide this?

Laura Cowles

At a cocktail party, question consensus is: what is the “walk like an Egyptian” dance and it’s purpose? Close second is how does one remove brain matter from a nostril?

Christopher Barley

Did ancient Egyptians discover/use electricity? Some artifacts/hieroglyphs (i.e. stories of the "eternal burning lamps" and the wall at the Dendera Temple) point to that theory.

Francina Martinez

EGYPTOLOGY/HERPETOLOGY question. Did Cleopatra really wear ball pythons as jewelry and that's why they're sometimes call "Royal Pythons"?

Christopher Royce

Hi Alie! I am wondering if Dr. Cooney has any thoughts on why mummies are almost always depicted in pop culture as villainous monsters–how come they never come to life and help people out or solve crimes?

Jeffrey Katz

A simple question. How were the pyramids built?

CT

What is the strangest thing you have seen buried with an ancient Egyptian corpse or coffin?

Bob

Are there "fashions" in coffins? Can you date a burial simply by looking at the design and construction of the coffin?

Marissa Lobato

which organs do they take out for mummification? is mummification legal anywhere? is there a factual representation from the mummy movies ft. brendan fraser?

Casey Handmer

What does the persistence of the Egyptian civilization through umpteen dynasties tell us about societal stability in general?

Euan Munro

If it meant you wouldn't be socially ostracised, would you like to wear a cool little fake beard?

Annika Harrison

From my students: Why did the ancient egyptians build the pyramids? Also: How could they? Also: How could they regard the pharao as god-like while still seeing that he's breathing, thus human? (this was literally asked by my 6th graders, so I'm just passing it on :) )

kitingmare

Is the curse of a mummy real ? (Are there references in writings from that time, or is it just something we came up with ?)

Emily Jackson

Why did ancient Egyptians worship cats?

Reuben Clamzo

What's up with people who claim the Sphinx is like way, WAY older than the consensus understanding of it?

Mark Larsen

What is the origin of the Egyptian Old Kingdom religion? Was it unique, borrowed, or combined from surrounding peoples?

Will Fett

What is your take on the 'hidden chamber' next to the King's chamber in the Great Pyramid? Another exciting discovery on the horizon or are we getting our hopes up over false data? <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/great-pyramids-hidden-chamber-may-be-a-trick-of-perspective-egyptologist-warns/news-story/d02e9021caf6233a265c0d84b7277812" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/great-pyramids-hidden-chamber-may-be-a-trick-of-perspective-egyptologist-warns/news-story/d02e9021caf6233a265c0d84b7277812</a>

kellie weyand

SHELLS please interview a CONCHOLOGIST - i have SO MANY QUESTIONS--love your podcast, ali. thanks so much!

Meaghan Walsh Gerard

Setting aside the wilder "ancient aliens" stuff, is there any evidence that ancient Egyptians were more advanced than we realize? For example, they had learned to harness steam power but that knowledge got lost and we had to "reinvent" it.

Dain Goding

How common were "mummy unwrapping parties" in Victorian England? Is there any estimate of how many mummies were lost due to mummy parties or as use in dye or simply destroyed by looters, compared to how many have been preserved?

Aeriel Belk

Also, what about those mummies lost to being eaten as medicine! I was going to ask about this too! :-)

Aeriel Belk

What was the deal with the ancient Egyptians and cats?

Erin Kelly

But like really could there be some horrible dormant disease we haven’t discovered yet just chilling in a tomb?

Tyler

Is the Egyptian government trying to have artifacts and other antiquities returned? Like Greece and the Elgin Marbles?

Tyler

THIS

Matthew

Has anything we've learned from the ancient Egyptian mummification process helped us in modern science?

Joe Weinmunson

How far did their trade networks extend? We know that there was trade and war with the Land of Punt and Canaan. Any evidence that they traded with India, northern Europe, or West Africa?

Eva

Is it true that evidence of smallpox, plague, and other diseases were uncovered in mummies? What were these epidemics like at the time?

Zeke Sikelianos

We got some kids books from the library about how the pyramids were constructed, but none of them mentioned the hardships endured by the people who built them. Weren't these workers essentially enslaved?

Valerie Jane

How ridiculous is the opening scene of 1987's Mannequin? Oh my gosh, it's terrible, right? But also, why do I kind of love it too? Help!

Rebecca

Does Orientalism still affect the field?

Colette Ayers

Talk me through the stages of mummification and how does it preserve? Why did they do it? And would you be mummified?

Jessica Tubesing

Do you have any belief in King Tut’s curse or any other pharaoh’s curses?

Brooke Danielle

What, if any, ancient Egyptian burial traditions still exist today? Or at least have had an impact on how burial is done in modern Egypt?

Laura Mulligan

Whats the most expensive, luxurious, balls to the walls coffin you've ever seen or heard of?

Danielle Dankenbring

What is the strangest thing you have seen on or in a coffin?

Danielle Dankenbring

What is your speculation as to why some pharaoh's "disappeared" from archaeological and written records after their death? Such as Hatsheput or Akhenaten? Is there a consistency to it, just to record what the next pharaoh is accomplishing, or does it seem directed at those who make significant impacts?

Jessica Starkman

Is there *any* possibility that the biblical exodus actually happened?

Olaf Doschke

Whenever an ex boss didn't know something he said "Egypt?". That became something of a synonym for not knowing anything - and annoying, especially, if he should. One birthday I bought him a book about Egypt - that ended it.

Elizabeth Bassett

I think I remember a book as a kid that talks about people (Victorians, maybe?) eating or ingesting Egyptian mummies or mummy parts. Was this a thing? Why? How widespread? And have any other cultures consumed OTHER mummies? Did anyone eat any peat bog mummies?!