Festivals for Bastet ... with Onions!

Festivals for Bastet ... with Onions!

The Religious Year (Parts 8-9): Onions for Bastet. Months 8 and 9 were big on drinking and eating, with some strange rituals to go along with them. We meet Bastet (the cat) and Renen-utet (the snake), two goddesses who were friends to farmers. As the harvest season began, all looked towards the growth of the fields... Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Select Bibliography: Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003. Anthony J. Spalinger, “Ancient Egyptian Calendars,” in C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sety's Borrowed Coffin with Dr. Peter Lacovara

Sety's Borrowed Coffin with Dr. Peter Lacovara

The coffin of Sety I (now in the NMEC) was probably reworked from an earlier piece, during the reburials in DB320 (the royal cache). But how can we tell? Dr. Peter Lacovara explains. Dr. Lacovara's w...

11 Huhti 202512min

205: Sety I The Finest Tomb

205: Sety I The Finest Tomb

Sety’s royal burial. Valley of the Kings tomb 17 (KV17) came to light in October 1817. Discovered by a team of Egyptian workers, employed by Giovanni Belzoni, the tomb is the most beautiful, and one o...

4 Huhti 20251h 33min

Scan Technology Reveals Hidden Chambers at Giza?

Scan Technology Reveals Hidden Chambers at Giza?

Approach with caution. In March 2025, a group calling itself the “Khafre Research Project” posted visual information online about the pyramid of Khafra at Giza. The group claims that Synthetic Apertur...

22 Maalis 202510min

Another Royal Tomb! Abydos | Hatshepsut | Bastet Tooth and more discoveries

Another Royal Tomb! Abydos | Hatshepsut | Bastet Tooth and more discoveries

News from the Field (2025) Part 2. The past excavation season has been extraordinarily productive. Beyond the new royal tomb of Thutmose II we also have a SECOND royal tomb, at Abydos! The Grand Egypt...

20 Maalis 202536min

204: Sety's Last Journey

204: Sety's Last Journey

After a reign of approximately eleven years, the Horus Men-Ma’at-Ra (Sety I) passed to the west. He died in reasonably good health, and studies of his mummy reveal a tall, physically robust individual...

13 Maalis 202539min

Egypt's New Royal Tomb Discovery with Dr. Chris Naunton. What's next?

Egypt's New Royal Tomb Discovery with Dr. Chris Naunton. What's next?

News from the Field 2025, Part 1. In February 2025, the breaking news was the discovery of a royal tomb. An archaeological mission working in Luxor are confident they have located the grave of King Th...

28 Helmi 202541min

203: Rise of a Vizier

203: Rise of a Vizier

Paser, servant of Sety I and Ramesses II (c.1300--1270 BCE). In the later years of his reign, King Sety promoted one of his servants to the highest political/government office. Paser, the Vizier, ente...

21 Helmi 202526min

Ramessid Biographies with Prof. Elizabeth Frood

Ramessid Biographies with Prof. Elizabeth Frood

Elizabeth Frood is Associate Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford, UK. In a lively discussion, Dr. Frood shares her insights into ancient lives an...

13 Helmi 202537min

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