How Used to be the Nice Pyramid Constructed?; What Did the Historical Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Had been There Bars in Historical Egypt?: An Egyptologist Solutions Those Questions & Extra from Web Customers

What did historic Egyp­tians sound like? What did they devour and drink? What historic Egypt­ian med­i­cine and equipment will we nonetheless use in mod­ern occasions? Why did they prac­tice mum­mi­fi­ca­tion? Above, Lau­rel Bestock, a professional­fes­sor from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, dis­cuss­es each­factor you ever need­ed to find out about Historical Egypt. Now not a stranger to pop­u­lar media productions—Bestock seems in a contemporary Country­al Geo­graph­ic professional­duc­tion, Egyp­t’s Misplaced Gained­ders—the professional­fes­sor fields each ques­tion that comes her means, no mat­ter how giant or small. All alongside, she provides “out­stand­ing and really down-to-earth expla­na­tions,” notes a fel­low professional­fes­sor within the YouTube com­ments. For my mon­ey, the most efficient phase comes on the 10:40 mark when she deci­phers and reads hiero­glyphs. Revel in.

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