Ancient Egypt in Context: Interview with Professor David Wengrow
Tides of History
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Tattooing in Egypt
There's a lot there. Ad i sincerely hope that when this book is released, you have time to come back on and chat with me more specifically about it. The one thing that occurs to me right now, and this ties back into the the work that you did in talking about egypt and the nile valley,. I talked to an expert on archaeological study of tattui arandeeder wolf is a fascinating chat. One of thehi that he mentioned in there was the way in which, when you look at the historical and ethnographic record of tattooing, a lot of what those tattoos are communicating is both the status of an individual and thestatus of an individual's ancestors.
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