Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

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Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney is a history podcast hosted by Kara Cooney, with 140 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Kara Cooney hosts Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney, a history show with 140 episodes published.

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  Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

  Building Tutankhamun's Digital Afterlife

  Jun 3, 20261h 36mS0

  <p>Summary:</p><p>Kara and Jordan welcome Griffith Institute staff Daniela Rosenow and Lara Bampfield to discuss the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, a searchable, metadata-driven platform that reconnects Carter’s excavation records to the tomb spaces, seasons, people, and objects. We learn about the trials and tribulations behind such an endevour, future plans for the project, and some of the fabulous stories behind lesser-known pieces in Tut’s tomb. </p><p>Tutankhamun Spatial Archive </p><p>Guest Bios:</p><p>Lara Bampfield has recently submitted her DPhil in Assyriology at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates change and cont...

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  The Hidden and the Formalized: Female Queerness in Ancient Egypt

  May 26, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Thank you paid subscribers, KinchStalker, Phoenix, Tomas Johansson, and many others for tuning into this live video with Jordan Galczynski and Amber Myers! You filled the chat with such sharp and interesting questions. This is exactly the kind of conversation we love — primary sources, spirited disagreement, duck genitalia, and the occasional new moon. We’ll be back soon. </p><p>CW— mature themes; sex; sexuality; sexual assault</p><p>What does it mean to look for queer lives in the ancient world? We don’t want to impose today’s freedoms onto a patriarchal past, but we also don’t want to er...

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  Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian Soul: The Ka

  Mar 19, 20261h 22mS0

  <p>In this episode Kara and Amber continue their series on the ancient Egyptian anatomy of the self by exploring the ka—often translated as a “life force,” but an element far more complex than that simple phrase suggests. Drawing on textual evidence like the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, art, architecture, and funerary practices, Kara and Amber examine how the ka functioned as a sustaining power tied to food offerings, lineage, divine capabilities, and the material world. Their discussion reveals how the ancient Egyptians understood the survival of the ka as something deeply materialistic: a system of bodies, images, offeri...

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  Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian soul: The Ba

  Feb 27, 20261 hourS0

  <p>What, exactly, makes a person a person? In this episode, Kara and Amber launch a new series exploring the anatomy of the ancient Egyptian soul. They begin with the ba—often translated as “soul,” but far stranger and more powerful than that simple word suggests. The ba is the part of you that moves, that transforms, that survives death. Drawing from art, funerary texts, and literary works like The Dialogue of a Man with His Ba, the Egyptians unpack how the ba functioned as a mobile, solar, and deeply dynamic aspect of the individual.</p><p>What emerges is an und...

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  The Old Man and the Sun: Sex, Death, and the Turin Erotic Papyrus

  Jan 29, 20261h 29mS0

  <p>**Content and trigger warning: This episode contains images of sex and discussion of sexual themes, sexual abuse and exploitation, incest, and other related topics that might be inappropriate or upsetting to some listeners. </p><p>Kara and Amber discuss one of the most debated objects from ancient Egypt: the so-called Turin Erotic Papyrus (Turin P. 55001). Often viewed as an example of ancient Egyptian pornography or crass entertainment, this papyrus reveals far more about elite anxiety, dynastic survival, and the ideological machinery of patriarchy. Through close visual analysis and discussion, they explore what is behind the exaggerated and sexualized depictions...

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