![]() ![]() You start with tombs that are just directly into the ground. ![]() KYLIE THOMPSEN: You want to start at like the earliest point of what we consider of, you know, Ancient Egypt. Kylie is a PhD candidate for Near Eastern language and cultures department at UCLA, and she focuses in Middle Kingdom funerary archaeology, here she was explaining the timeline of tombs that existed in the ancient Egyptian kingdoms. And because I messed up the audio, I’ll introduce her here. Our interviewee Kylie Thompson mentioned these kinds of tombs and our conversation about the big tombs of ancient Egypt. “The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence.” Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. They were graves lined with brick in the ground, often containing pottery and small in contrast to the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. But these tombs are not our traditional idea of what an ancient Egyptian tomb would look like. NENNINGER: So the Egyptians had been burying their dead in tombs since the pre dynastic period, which was about 6000 to 3100 BCE. Section Two: Ancient Egyptian Tombs (00:02:07) Lastly, we’ll be covering the modern world how fashion has capitalized on some of the Egyptian tomb aesthetics and interpreted the artwork into popular culture. From there, it’s the roaring 20s and the ways that art deco was inspired by King Tut’s tomb and as well as some of the fashion trends inspired by the sarcophagi. We’ll be talking about Egyptomania and the 1800s and the ways that the aesthetics of tombs were integrated into the art and architecture of Britain. ![]() Starting off the podcast we’ll explore the original tombs of ancient Egypt, what they look like and the things they were buried with the dead. And while that is not entirely untrue, it does depict Egypt in a two dimensional light, which I will be working to uncover within this episode. Because of all the preserved tombs mummies and sarcophagi, Egypt has been branded as an exotic mummy obsessed kingdom. So right off the gate, let me address the idea of death in ancient Egypt that has been perpetrated by the Western world. Now you’ve never been and as you’re seeing the grand artifacts and architecture of the ancient kingdom, you’re wondering, Yo, what’s up with all this dead stuff? Hi, welcome to season two episode five of now versus then, I’m Sophie Nenninger and today we’re going to be talking about the tombs of ancient Egypt. SOPHIE NENNINGER: So imagine it’s the 1800s and you’re unexplored traveling into Egypt for the first time. Featuring: Bob Nenninger Featuring: Kylie Thompsen, UCLA PhD Student ![]()
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