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Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Social Separators of Egypt

When people think of Egypt, they're like, Oh, I've never had a tomb and ever had a closet. And the coffin and embalming of the body are social separators par excellence. Like there's nothing that's going to work better on a human mind than this rich person gets to live forever bodily and you're going to rot. How do you deal with that? Do you know who were the haves and who were the have nots?

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