January Q&A

Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

EPISODE 75 | CW// war, violence, explicit language

In this month’s Q&A episode Kara and Jordan answer questions about Kara’s upcoming book Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches, their favorite fictional books related to ancient Egypt and Egyptology, female identity and rebirth in ancient Egyptian religion, animal mummies, and more.

Show notes:

* The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling

* Forest Lawn cemetery

* "Where does the Masculine Begin and the Feminine End? The Merging of the Two Genders in Egyptian Coffins during the Ramesside Period," in: Ehrenmord und Emanzipation: Die Geschlechterfrage in Ritualen von Parallelgesellschaften, Geschlecht--Symbol--Religion series, B. Heininger, ed., LIT Verlag (Münster 2009).

* "The Fragmentation of the Female: Re-gendered Funerary Equipment as a Means of Rebirth," in: Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt, C. Graves-Brown, ed., Classical Press of Wales (Swansea 2008), 1-25.

* “An eternal aviary: bird mummies from ancient Egypt” (Salima Ikram)

* Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt (Salima Ikram)

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