November 2023 Supporter Q&A

EPISODE 68 | This month’s Q&A episode features questions on ancient festivals, food, human sacrifice, and marriage and incest in ancient Egypt.

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Episode Notes

• Food

  • The Pharaoh’s Kitchen, by Madga Mehdawy

  • Ikram, Salima. 1995. Choice Cuts : Meat Production in Ancient Egypt. Leuven: Peeters.

• Ancient Egyptian Festivals

  • Coppens, F. 2009. Temple Festivals of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.

  • Stadler, M. 2008. Procession. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.

• Beverages

  • Ancient Egyptian Beer

  • Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer

• Dr. Amr Shahat’s paleobotany work

• Listen to Dr. Rose Campbell’s episode on human sacrifice on Substack at the links below or on Apple Podcasts (Part I and Part II) or Spotify (Part I and Part II):

Human Sacrifice in Early Dynastic Egypt with Dr. Rose Campbell

Part II: Human Sacrifice in early Dynastic Egypt with Dr. Rose Campbell

• Campbell, Roselyn. 2023. “Hidden Violence: Reassessing Violence and Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt,” in Danielle Candelora, Nadia Ben-Marzouk, & Kathlyn M. Cooney (eds.) Ancient Egyptian Society : Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. Purchase!

• Reception of Ancient Egypt - P. Djèlí Clark’s books

• Marriage and incest in the ancient world

  • Ager, Sheila L. 2021. “Royal brother-sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise,” in Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge companion to women and monarchy in the ancient Mediterranean world, 346-358. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

  • Robinson, Joanne-Marie. 2020. "Blood is thicker than water": non-royal consanguineous marriage in ancient Egypt. An exploration of economic and biological outcomes. Archaeopress Egyptology 29. Oxford: Archaeopress.