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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Hey, hey, hey, back again with another episode

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Speaker 1: of Ridiculous Romance. Hope you all have been having a

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Speaker 1: good New year so far. There's only a couple more

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Speaker 1: days where that's worth saying, you know, to get into

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Speaker 1: late January. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the new year.

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Speaker 1: Shut up, it ain't new anymore. And y'all may have

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Speaker 1: seen on our Instagram account and we did something kind

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Speaker 1: of cool the other day. Oh my god, it was

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Speaker 1: so cool. For Christmas, Diana got me the best present.

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Speaker 1: She's she's an excellent gift giver, and she came up

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Speaker 1: with an event, which, of course I am an experienced person.

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Speaker 1: I got too much stuff. I don't like things, I

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Speaker 1: don't need clutter, I don't really need any more gadgets. Um,

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Speaker 1: Diana knows that I love doing stuff, and so she

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Speaker 1: got us an hour with a bunch of raptors birds

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Speaker 1: of prey. And I will say when I opened the

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Speaker 1: card and it said Raptor Experience that for a brief

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Speaker 1: second I thought it was one of the was like

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Speaker 1: cheesy fiberglass dinosaur mum marked, which I was also super into.

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Speaker 1: Well now I want to find one of those. But

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Speaker 1: on learning that it was actually a raptor experience like

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Speaker 1: the birds. It was amazing. So it was called Georgia

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Speaker 1: Mountain Falconry and we drove up to Delawaga and spent

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Speaker 1: an hour with them in the Chattahoochee National Forest. With

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Speaker 1: these birds. It was incredible. Yeah, they had They had

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Speaker 1: three different owls and I think three or four different

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Speaker 1: They did say some of them did the hell out

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Speaker 1: of you. They do not touch this one. But some

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Speaker 1: of them were more friendly than others, and so you

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Speaker 1: were able to actually pet their wings and stuff like

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Speaker 1: that and look at their crazy feet because you've got

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Speaker 1: these talents of course go on forever. Some of them,

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Speaker 1: like the Eurasian eagle owl had feathers coming all the

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Speaker 1: way down. It's eat right all the way to its clause.

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Speaker 1: So it had these like furry looking feet and they

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Speaker 1: were cool. Dude, so big that that's one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest owls in the world. Oranges to very orange. Such

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Speaker 1: a cool experience, highly right. If you're in Georgia, look

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Speaker 1: it up to a Mountain Falconry dot com. It's it

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Speaker 1: was very easy to arrange, and they were super cool

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Speaker 1: and knowledgeable and it was awesome. So yeah, I do it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: But today we're on the hunt for something else, an

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Speaker 1: exciting story about romance in history. Uh, we've got one here,

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Speaker 1: But first I think that we need to check the

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Speaker 1: mail bag because it is overflowing. We got to get

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Speaker 1: some of these on the air. So true, I think

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Speaker 1: it's time for awesome. Yes, since we're going back to

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Speaker 1: ancient Egypt today, we wanted to share this message from

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Speaker 1: Instagram from Angie c Um, who reached out about our

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Speaker 1: pharaoh a Mena tep in Queen te episode. She said

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Speaker 1: that she particularly liked our jokes about being a student

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Speaker 1: of the Mummy the movie, which I can't say enough

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Speaker 1: nice things about the Ummy. Such an experience both educational

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Speaker 1: the Mummy. And she said, I'd like to think that

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Speaker 1: perhaps while they did marry their daughters, it wasn't always

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Speaker 1: to further their seed quote unquote, but to give their

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Speaker 1: to how Italian dads would put their daughters and nunneries,

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Speaker 1: which were essentially boutique hotels for them to live how

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Speaker 1: they wish. Evidently that was way cheaper than paying a

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Speaker 1: is a really good point from Angie, and that's so true.

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Speaker 1: Some of the pharaohs that married their own daughters. Obviously

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Speaker 1: They didn't really have any kind of They didn't get

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Speaker 1: They were just kind of like, hey, I got whatever.

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Speaker 1: Ramsay's had like a billion children, so he's probably like,

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Speaker 1: that Rachel Vice's character and the Mummy is literally my hero.

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Speaker 1: I often yell take that, Bembridge scholars, when I've achieved

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Speaker 1: This is awesome and again a very good point about

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Speaker 1: ancient Egypt. So let's not put sex on everything. But

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Speaker 1: that was then, this is now, and this is another

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Speaker 1: ancient Egypt story about Ramsey Is the Second and his

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Speaker 1: queen Nefertari, and Ramsey Is married Nefertari before he ascended

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Speaker 1: life was Nefertari. So let's hear about Ramsey's the Second,

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Speaker 1: his smart and beautiful queen and life in ancient Egypt.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's go. Hey their French combustion. Well, Elia

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Speaker 1: and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking,

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Speaker 1: a romantic tips. It's just about pardiculous relationships, a love.

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Speaker 1: It might be any type of persion at all, and

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Speaker 1: abstract cons a concrete wall. But if there's a story

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Ramsey's The Second is considered to be one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest pharaohs in Egyptian history. Um He was

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Speaker 1: and you're a great leader infrastructure. People talking about art,

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Speaker 1: achievement in architecture, that's what makes a great civilization. Make

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Speaker 1: a note. Have none of you studied history? Leaders of

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Speaker 1: They really haven't. They really have not military history. That's all.

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Speaker 1: They look at business and that's it. Some of Ramsey's

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Speaker 1: most impressive monuments were built as a tribute to his wife,

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Speaker 1: Queen Nefertari, and she was known as the most beautiful

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Speaker 1: a savage fantis. She's been getting into that, sure, and

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Speaker 1: she would definitely do that outfit of the day thing

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Speaker 1: and the pharaoh himself is like a little secret code.

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Speaker 1: They were just like I don't know. Stork bird, feather bowl,

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Speaker 1: like Egyptians and Hittites all the same, The last a

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Speaker 1: We're going to get to their romance. But first, some history,

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Speaker 1: So this is kind of overly simplistic, but for our

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Speaker 1: when Ramsey's took over, he distinguished himself in battle against

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Speaker 1: the Shirt and Sea Pirates in his second year, and

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Speaker 1: And I was gracious enough to say yes, of course.

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Speaker 1: But to Celia's versions says, oh, Ramsey's that guy just

424
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: can't keep it together and he's such a mess. He

425
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: came to me and he said, please, please do se

426
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: I just gotta stop this war. Were you just we

427
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: Will you end it? Please? I'll do anything. I'll kiss

428
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: your feet. The Egyptians are nothing compared to the Hittie.

429
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: It's true, you're so powerful. So you know, they both

430
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 1: just needed to save face when they got home. They

431
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: both needed to look like their idea um and they

432
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: didn't care what the other one said, like, I don't

433
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: care what your people think of me. I just need

434
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Speaker 1: my people to think I look good. Which makes sense.

435
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, their subjects are rarely going

436
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 1: to know what another empire is saying. You know, they're

437
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: not going to know any of that, right, and asking

438
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: for a ceasefire on either end might have looked a

439
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: little weak, so they both had to He had a

440
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: guy looked like he did it, which is funny I

441
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: think in a way, because it seems to us that

442
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: the big accomplishment was this peace treaty, Like that's really

443
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 1: cool to come up with an alliance and said like,

444
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: we're just going to keep violently murdering each other until

445
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: one of us gives up um or is all dead. Um.

446
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool that they came up with a different

447
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: solution that, but at the time it was not cool,

448
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: so they had to be like, oh, we did something

449
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: violent anyway, but today we're like, awesome diplomatic solution, like

450
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: come home and be like I kicked his ass so

451
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: hard that he asked me to stop, so I was

452
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: very graciously I said that I would, and we wrote

453
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: it down. Yeah, but what about the romance. Okay, we're

454
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: we're all in this, these battles and peace treaties and

455
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: ship where's Nefertari? In all this, well, she was doing

456
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: her part too, don't you worry, because her ability to

457
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: read and write higher glyphs meant she could help with

458
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Speaker 1: diplomatic duty. So she was actually a pretty dominent member

459
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Speaker 1: of the court, and letters survived between her and King

460
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: Hattusili as well as his wife, pudu Heppa. I'm gonna

461
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: pull into speculation station. Puda Heppa was apparently also a

462
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: very highly educated queen. She was very cherished by how

463
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: to see leave for her intelligence, kind of like nectary.

464
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: So I wonder if there was actual liking, you know,

465
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: mutual respect between these two women, and it wasn't just

466
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: a diplomatic thing that she reached out. If they ever met,

467
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: I wonder if their eyes met and they were like, oh,

468
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: you're cool. I'm cool, We're cool, and they you know,

469
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: I shared each other's TikTok. I think I think of

470
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: like um, Clementine Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt. Yeah, totally totally

471
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: had their own little thing going on which may have

472
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: helped end the war. Their their little friendship, which you

473
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,479
Speaker 1: have to wonder, you know, again, this ancient world, so

474
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: we don't have as much as we like. Of course,

475
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: Egyptologists are like was and everything still here? But I

476
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: wonder that you know how much the queens were whispering

477
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: into you know, they're Pharaoh's ears, Like, hey, what then

478
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: is going on with Kadesh again? Like why do we care?

479
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: What's going on? Can? Is there anything? What about? If not?

480
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: Abut like you know, there's so many whispers that we

481
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: don't know anything about. I'm certain that they were strong

482
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: influences because as soon as we start having more records

483
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: of what women in history were doing, we start to

484
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: see the influence that they had. As soon as they

485
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: started writing it down, they were talking about how much

486
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: they were influencing power and kings and and and everything

487
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: like that. So of course it was happening back then too. Yeah,

488
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: I'm certain of it. Yeah, I will also pull into

489
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: speculation station here. I got a whole separate train I'm

490
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: worried about. You know, you've got Ramsey's and how to Seeley,

491
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: You've got Nefertari and Pudu Heppa. You know, they're all smart.

492
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: They're all a lot better than anyone else in their

493
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: tear Tori. They probably don't have a lot of friends

494
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: that can keep up with them. They're meeting up. They're

495
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: getting along. Maybe one thing leads to another. Maybe, you know,

496
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: maybe they maybe throw down a little bit. There's a

497
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: pharaoh's wife, swap pharaoh's fosome, maybe pharaoh fosome with pH

498
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I mean why not. You know, they already

499
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: were totally into polygamy. So I'm saying it happened. Heard

500
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: it here first. Um. Yeah. She also did send gifts

501
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: to Pippa Um much like we do today, empires back

502
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: and forth. Or maybe it was because of the foursome.

503
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: She wrote to her, quote, the great Queen Nefertari of

504
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: the Land of Egypt speaks, Thus, speak to my sister, Papa,

505
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: the great Queen of the Hatti land. I your sister

506
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: also be well. May your country be well. And she

507
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: goes on to tell her she's sending her some gifts. Quote,

508
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: in order to greet you, my sister, for your neck

509
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Speaker 1: a necklace of pure gold composed of twelve bands and

510
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: weighing eighty eight. Shekels colored linen mcclalu material for one

511
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: royal dress for the king, a total of twelve linen garments.

512
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: And then she wrote, PS, send pics of you in garments.

513
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: I just want to see how they look papyrus scrolls

514
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: or it didn't happen. It was winking, winking, Uh what

515
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: was the egg planned water droplets? Um. I was struck

516
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: by how she listed out all the gifts, which must

517
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: have been something normal to do, because you had to

518
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: send them so far, like somebody's going to steal them.

519
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: Make sure you make sure you know there's twelve count

520
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: that ship right now it weighs. She's like, bring me

521
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: the scale. Oh, this is sixty eight. Who stole one

522
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: of my bands. Oh. And of course, in the time

523
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: honored tradition maintaining alliances and empires everywhere all through history,

524
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: Ramsey's two did also marry a daughter of Hattusi lely Uh,

525
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: a bonus romans. One of his two wives and concubines

526
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: was all one of those daughters. So great job taught

527
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: to see Lee for keeping one of his daughters available

528
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: for that. Now, with the Hittites no longer a problem,

529
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: Ramsey's could concentrate his military exploits on maintaining control in Nubia,

530
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: and this was important because Nubia is where the gold was,

531
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: which of course caused all kinds of historical problems for

532
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: the Nubians. I'm so sorry for anyone whose land was

533
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: on a lot of gold. For reals, someone was going

534
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: to come in and be an asshole about it. Never

535
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: got to keep it for yourself. And yeah, and he

536
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: was also able to concentrate his domestic policy on building

537
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: the ship out of everything just monuments, temples, buildings, houses

538
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: make this city bigger and prettier. His memorial temple, the Ramuseum,

539
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: was started early in his reign and took two decades

540
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: to complete, but ruins of it still will stand today,

541
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: and carvings and etchings depict his quotes major victory in

542
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: the Battle of Kadesh, which of course we know not

543
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: to be that major. But his most impressive project, and

544
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: the greatest honor bestowed on Nefertari, is the enormous rock

545
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: cut temples of Abu Simbel, and we will hear all

546
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: about those right after this break, and welcome back to

547
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: the show, everybody. So located near Egypt's border with Sudan,

548
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: the temple of Abu Simbel was literally cut into a mountain,

549
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: and this was sort of the pharaoh going I am God,

550
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: so I can do whatever I want to any part

551
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: of the landscape, reshape the earth um and he did.

552
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: The Great Temple is dedicated to Ramsey's and the Small Temple,

553
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: obviously a little smaller, is dedicated to Nefertari. And in

554
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: the entrance of the Great Temple there are four sixty

555
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: six foot statue is of Ramsey's and then he's surrounded

556
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: by smaller statues of Nefertari and some of his other wives,

557
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: as well as his son's, and inside his many accomplishments

558
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: and exploits are depicted in really intricate, beautiful carvings. And

559
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: then the small temple, the one dedicated to Nefertari, has

560
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: thirty three foot tall statues of Ramsey's two as well

561
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: as Nefertari. You know, I'm so amazed by these stone

562
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: carved temples and stories carved into walls and stuff. And

563
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, the pressure to not screw up when you're

564
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: carving into stone has got to be outrageous. I wonder,

565
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: Speculation Station, I wonder how often they fucked up, And

566
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: we're just like, I guess I'm going to change what

567
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: this says now, like maybe even maybe he was trying

568
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: to be honest about the Battle of Kadesh, and then

569
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: he like chiseled the nose off the wrong way or

570
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: something was like, oh no, uh, you know what, just

571
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: say I won that. It was really great. Just carve

572
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: over that. I know. I'm like, do they buff it

573
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: out or something or they're like draft rocks like littered about.

574
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: They're like, oops, I funked up this word. Start over.

575
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: I want to you know. They're carving these huge statues

576
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: right into the side of the mountain, like if you

577
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: go to the other side of the mountain, was like

578
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: it was like effort number one on there, or they

579
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: kind of botched it. They're like, well, I got to

580
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: start on another side of the mount Everybody pack up now.

581
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: This is only the second time that a pharaoh ever

582
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: dedicated a temple to a queen. The first was when

583
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: akat In dedicated one to Nefertiti, and according to renowned

584
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: archaeologist Zahi Hawas, it was the first time that a

585
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: temple was constructed in the honor of a queen. The

586
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: whole point they built it for her, and Nefertiti got

587
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: one that was already built, like you can have this

588
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: temple very nice. No one had gotten that before. This

589
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: is also one of the few times that a pharaoh

590
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: depicted his wife on the same scale as him. One

591
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: of the other times was our girl Queen ti A

592
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: and a minute Tep the third. Of course you all

593
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: remember that episode. If you hadn't heard it, check it out.

594
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: They've got a very exciting story. What this meant was

595
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: that he saw her as an equal ruler of Egypt

596
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: and worthy of the greatest honors. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah.

597
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: Oh and speaking of a Menotep the third and Zahi Hawas,

598
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: we actually have a little update about that episode. O

599
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: Um Hawas announced just last year in one that his

600
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: team of archaeologists had discovered a huge city founded by

601
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: a Menotpa third and it's like super well preserved. They

602
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: already uncovered of full bakery and like a perfectly preserved

603
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: skeleton and like a burial side and stuff. So they're saying,

604
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,760
Speaker 1: this discovery should give us a lot of new insights

605
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: into like what the daily life of non royal Egyptians

606
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: was like, because obviously you didn't write down what the

607
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: workers were doing. Who cares, you know what I mean?

608
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: But we we care very much to know what it

609
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: was like outside the palace um. So they're kind of

610
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: guring out more about how they with their homes were,

611
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: how they were laid out, and how they organized their work,

612
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: and how their family life went, and all kinds of

613
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: stuff we're gonna learn from this discovery. So that's pretty cool.

614
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: That's so cool. It's funny that one of our first

615
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: episodes to have an update is the ancient Egypt takes

616
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: thousands of years to get updates sometimes. Um, okay, the

617
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: scale of the statues in this temple isn't our only

618
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: clue to Ramsey's feelings about in Nefertari. He also gave

619
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: her tons of important titles like Great of Praises, Lady

620
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: of Grace, Great King's Wife, his beloved, Lady of two lands,

621
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: Lady of all lands, like she got a little, a

622
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: little promotion, wife of the Strong Bull, God's wife, and

623
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt. Very very generous titles.

624
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: But I will say that like calling her God's wife

625
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: is more of a compliment to himself. He's going to

626
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: say the same I was gonna say, Honey, I got

627
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: you something wonderful. We're going to start calling you the

628
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: wife of the most powerful and brilliant person on earth.

629
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Speaker 1: What do you think? Cool? Cool? Thanks? I guess Can

630
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: we just use Nefertari well. He also called her suite

631
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: of love and the one for whom the sun shines.

632
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: That's pretty nice. That is pretty nice. They had at

633
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: least six children together, four sons and two daughters, and

634
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: their first son was named Prince Regent and has depicted,

635
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: along with his brother's, fighting with his father in several

636
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 1: battles and in that sort of quirky Egyptian royalty way.

637
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: He did also marry two daughters, and each of them

638
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: became great royal wives, which I mean, you know, maybe

639
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: that's a compliment to Nefertari as well, like, hey, you're

640
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: the daughter's you birth can really make something out of

641
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: this one. It's not just any old daughter. I'll marry

642
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: this daughter, right and I and I assume that they

643
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: did have children together, tried at least because they were

644
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: elevated to great royal wives, so unlike Angie's point from

645
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: beginning from the beginning, some were not, but I think

646
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: they were gross now. Nefertari died around Beastie, only a

647
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: few years after Ramsay's negotiated the peace treaty with the

648
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 1: hit Tights, and he had an absolutely stunning tomb built

649
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: for her in the Valley of the Queens. It's not

650
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: only larger than most other queens tombs, but the inside

651
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: is covered floor to ceiling with stunning paintings and really

652
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: rich colors that have actually lasted, you know, the test

653
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: of times. Beautiful. It's very gorgeous. It's been called the

654
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: Sistine Chapel of Egypt. It's really worth seeing. Please go

655
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 1: look at pictures online. There's like a whole room where

656
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: the ceiling is painted blue and there are thousands of

657
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: stars and it it's you know, it depicts, of course,

658
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: her entire journey into the afterlife and everything like that,

659
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: but it's just beautiful. It was discovered in nineteen o four,

660
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: but all the treasures that she would have been buried with,

661
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: the jewelry, the goal, the furniture, all that stuff had

662
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: all been looted sometime in antiquity. It was strict clean.

663
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: Is that what the people who found it said. That's

664
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: what the people who found There was nothing here we

665
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: got here. It was all it was empty. Yeah. It

666
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: was founded by a guy named Shipparelli, so he was

667
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: probably like, and uh, my brand new mansion has nothing

668
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: that's totally totally unrelated. The only thing they left were

669
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: the knees of Nefertari's mummy. Oh you mean like the

670
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: robbers robber, the original grave looters took everything but her knees.

671
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: That's even weirder to me that the people who found

672
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: it were like everything was gone except these knee caps. Sorry,

673
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: they must have taken it all. And I guess they

674
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: left the knee caps like what but and also like

675
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: if if you're taking a mummy, why not just take

676
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 1: the whole thing? Why would you leave the knee caps?

677
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: Don't understand? Or maybe just leave the whole leg beneath

678
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: the knee like that means that they literally took the

679
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: top and then also below the knee and left the knee.

680
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: Maybe they just like weren't very well attached. They fell

681
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: off while they were carrying her. I'm picturing Jasper and

682
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Brutus from One Dalmatians and they're trying to carry it

683
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: out like busts up and the knees fall off, like well,

684
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: just throw it on the back. Yeah, I forget about that.

685
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: Did you get everything? Yeah, I'm sure we got it all.

686
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 1: Let's get out of here. They kick it under a table. Yeah.

687
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: They get back to Cruela, who's waiting for them for

688
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: this mummy, and she's like, where are the knees? I

689
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: can't make a coat out of this mummy coat you.

690
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, all the all the treasures usensensibly are gone,

691
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: but the fifty d square feet of paintings inside have

692
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 1: been enough of a treasurer for Egypt. Um. It's widely

693
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: considered to be the height of achievement in ancient Egyptian art.

694
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: And of course it's been a huge tourism draw. I

695
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: want to go. I'm drawn to tourists myself. Um. And

696
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: it was actually originally open to tourist. I mean, of

697
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: course they immediately opened it to tourists, but of course

698
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: that led to deterioration of the paintings because it was

699
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: being exposed to the air. Also, just the humidity of

700
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: people's breath was enough to kind of make it start

701
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: to ruin it. So they closed it up. They did

702
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: as much restoring and preserving work as they could do,

703
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: and then they opened it back up again. So it is,

704
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: it is available to see today, but there are only

705
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: a limited number of visitors allowed inside and they can

706
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: only stay for ten minutes top, so you better be concentrated,

707
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: Like if I walked in there like, do not speak

708
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: to me. I don't want you to call my attention

709
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: to no ship. I have ten minutes to look at

710
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: this feet of paintings and are intricate, So if you really,

711
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to like look at detail,

712
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: you don't have time. I remember we went to the

713
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: Borghese in Rome, and that's what it's got. It's full

714
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: of Bernini sculptures, just my favorite artists ever and they're

715
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: so incredible. And you had it was a very limited

716
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: number of people in there aloud at a time, and

717
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: you had to book in an advance, and you got

718
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: to spend an hour, um, and that was enough, Like

719
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: I didn't feel rushed. It's not a huge museum. There's

720
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: a few incredible works of art. You really get to

721
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: spend time with them. And now I was worried about

722
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: it going in, but afterwards I was like, Okay, now

723
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: I felt like an hour it was the right amount

724
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: of time. Ten minutes ain't enough time for me to

725
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: do anything. I know, I feel like I just stand

726
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: in the middle of the room and be odd for

727
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: ten minutes before I'd actually get around to looking at everything.

728
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: It takes me ten minutes to get through most doorways

729
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: in the museum because I'm just like, oh, look at this.

730
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: You know I can't so I would be way too distracted. Yeah,

731
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: I'd have to come back in with a mustache and

732
00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: you're like, hello, I'm I'm Milash makes Now I would

733
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: like to tour the museum. Now, right this Way's lead

734
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: me out of the back door, right this way into

735
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: the draft version of nefert two. Now in the temple.

736
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: Nefertary is depicted in places playing a sistra, which is

737
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: like this type of percussion instrument. It sort of looks

738
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: like a mini tennis racket um, but instead of strings

739
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: on the inside, there's these like flat discs that sort

740
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: of rattled together when you shake it, so it can

741
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: be played with a soft sound or like a jangly

742
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: one kind of looks like a tambourine on a stick

743
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: sort of. She's also depicted playing a game called senate,

744
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 1: and this is one of the earliest known board games.

745
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: Senate basically means passing, and it's the strategic two player

746
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: game with five ponds each where you have to get

747
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: around the board by passing or capturing each other's pawns. Now,

748
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: they had throw sticks that determined how many spaces you

749
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: moved each turn, which is sort of like rudimentary dice. Yeah,

750
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: we don't really know the rules to Senate anymore. A

751
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: few egyptologists and archaeologists have I had to work out

752
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: some kind of game play and you can buy it

753
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: or play it online based on their rules that they

754
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: came up with. Um, but just note that no ancient

755
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: Egyptians left any instruction, totally making it up. Yeah, like

756
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: everyone knows how to play Senate, don't write it down.

757
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: But eurogamer dot net has a great article um called

758
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: why did ancient Egypt spend three thousand years playing a

759
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: game no one else liked? And it's really worth a read.

760
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: It's very well written, and the author, Christian don Ln,

761
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: basically he played Senate based on the rules that the

762
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: scholars had come up with. He found it to be

763
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: a pretty boring game. Unlike another ancient board game called

764
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: the Royal Game of Er. She says it's much more

765
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: fast paced and exciting. However, it is quote responsible for

766
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: one of the first recorded instances of trash talking, captured

767
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: on the wall in the tomb of Peppi unc at Mirror,

768
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: and itself dated to around twenty three D b C. Damn,

769
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: let's read it. It has alighted. Be happy, my heart,

770
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: for I shall cause you to see it taken away.

771
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: You speak as one week of tongue for passing is mine?

772
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: That that is a sick burn. You better get some

773
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: al overra for that burn. You say you will win,

774
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: Well it is I who is the one who will win,

775
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: you know, like, pretty pretty harsh diss Yeah, and I'm not.

776
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: I won't get into it, but that article really is

777
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: very fascinating. Maybe we can share link somewhere something. But

778
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: he talks a lot about why senate did not get

779
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: popular in the region and what in the world made

780
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: it interesting to anyone who's like, I do not get it. Uh,

781
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: it's probably gambling, just aheads up, But I think it's

782
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: cool to look at this, you know, these pastimes and

783
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: stuff and kind of get a better idea of what people,

784
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: just regular everyday people were like, and they like to win,

785
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: just like we do. Now. Navatari is gone at this point,

786
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: but Ramsey is the second, is still alive. He's still

787
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: got a lot to do, and he would stay alive

788
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: for a pretty unprecedented length of time. So in Egypt,

789
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: upon their thirtieth year of rule. Pharaoh's celebrated a said

790
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: festival s E d And after the first one at

791
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: their thirtieth year, they would have one every two or

792
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: three years. So it's kind of like what does the

793
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: Queen of England do a jubilee? Yea. Most pharaohs didn't

794
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,399
Speaker 1: even get to their first said thirty years of rule,

795
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: but Ramsey's ended up celebrating either thirteen or fourteen of

796
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: these festivals altogether. He lived to be about nineties six

797
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: years old, and he reigned for over sixty six years,

798
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: and he outlived many of his children. By the time

799
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: he passed away, he had really bad arthritis and serious

800
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: dental problems. They even think that maybe an abscess in

801
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: his teeth caused an infection that might have contributed into

802
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: his death. Abscesses suck. I feel very bad for him.

803
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: The amount of dental anxiety I have to day, with

804
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: the amount of painkillers we have and stuff and and technology,

805
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: I cannot even imagine back in the day where they

806
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: literally probably just hit you on the head with a

807
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: club in a chokehold until I pass out. If you're

808
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: going to do anything in my teeth. And Ramsey's too

809
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: cut the Betty White of his time. I guess you

810
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: could say, Okay, he lived really really old, much older

811
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: than most of us get to be. Yes, but it

812
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: was still too soon for his Oh I see what

813
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought maybe he

814
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: had like a hilarious sitcom for years and a bunch

815
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: of lots of pictures of and flicking people. Are right,

816
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: he looked like a sweet old man. But he was

817
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: real sassy. He was super stassy. But yeah. Ramsey's Two

818
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: is considered the last great king of the Golden Age

819
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: of Egypt. He brought an unprecedented peace to Egypt through

820
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: his treaty with the hit Heights. He expanded the higher.

821
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: He built so many monuments, temples, buildings, tombs, cities that

822
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: his legacy is still echoing through generations. Nine pharaohs that

823
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: succeeded Ramsey's Two named themselves after him because it made

824
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: him look good, probably, and there are tons of references

825
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: to him in popular culture. One of the most well

826
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: known is a poem by Percy Bis Shelly called Ozamandius.

827
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: And Ozamandius, by the way, is the Greek name for

828
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: Ramsey's so he's referenced as Ramsey's and also Ozamandius in

829
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: pop culture, and that poem includes a pretty famous line.

830
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,720
Speaker 1: So I thought we could go down to poetry Corner

831
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: and here Ozamandius by Percy Bie Shelly. I met a

832
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: traveler from an antique land who said, two vast and

833
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them,

834
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 1: on the sand, half sunk, A shattered visage lies who's

835
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: frowned and wrinkled lips and sneez year of cold command.

836
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: Tell that it's sculptor. Well, those passions read, which yet survive,

837
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them

838
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these

839
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: words appear. My name is Ozymandius, King of kings. Look

840
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: on my works, ye mighty and despair. Nothing beside remains

841
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bear,

842
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 1: the lone and level sands stretch far away. Oh, transience

843
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Speaker 1: of power, and how time wears a whayale things. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess it's interesting thinking about just that. I mean,

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00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: you've got Shelly saying here like, yeah, this guy was

846
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: the absolute ship in his day, and now he's a

847
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: worn down statue in the middle of a desert with

848
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: nothing around it. It's just, you know, time conquers all

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Speaker 1: and the great rulers. Although I mean it's been three

850
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Speaker 1: thousand years or so and we still know his name

851
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Speaker 1: and a lot about what he did because of those buildings,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think he still did pretty good.

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Speaker 1: If someone's talking about me three thousand years from now,

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Speaker 1: I think I'll feel pretty special. Take that Shelly's talking

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Speaker 1: about Shelley. Take that Bembridge scholars. We will be talking

856
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Speaker 1: about Shelly at some point. Apisode is a comment, don't

857
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: you worry? Ramsey is the second is also unique in

858
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Speaker 1: history in that he is the only ancient Egyptian pharaoh

859
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: to have a passport issued to him by a modern government.

860
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Speaker 1: So in four egyptologists in Egypt discovered that Ramsey's mummy

861
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: was deteriorating really fast, and they decided to send him

862
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: to France to get studied. But even dead guys need

863
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: travel papers to leave Egypt or It's been speculated that

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Speaker 1: Egypt was worried once the mummy was in France that

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be allowed out to leave again, which, considering

866
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Speaker 1: the amount of Egyptian stuff that isn't in Egypt, probably

867
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: a safe bet. Their part France is like, no, yes,

868
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: just to bring us a mummy, we will take very

869
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: good caravans. It will have a very welcome, very temporary

870
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Speaker 1: home in the louver. I'm sure very temporary's just going

871
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: to stop in for a few days. We lost them.

872
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:28,919
Speaker 1: We got it's a very big museum, and we would

873
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Speaker 1: return him to you, but we cannot even find it.

874
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 1: I can't remember where I would do. Meanwhile, they're pulling

875
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: up posters of like. So the Egyptian government issued the

876
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: mummy a passport, and it is notable not only for

877
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: its photo of Ramsey's mummified face, but also his occupation,

878
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: which is king parentheses deceased. And when Ramsey's arrived in

879
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: France in ninety six, it was received at the airport

880
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: with full military honors as befitted a king. So I

881
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: mean pretty good. Ramsey was piled be intreated with a

882
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: lot of respect, even after many many centuries after his death. Wow,

883
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: what a dude, what a what a couple, right, So

884
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I mean, this love story between this

885
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: guy who had so many loves to choose from. But

886
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: Nefertari and also like, I mean he lived a long

887
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,919
Speaker 1: time after she died, but still that was his love

888
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: of his life. He never had another temple like that

889
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: for anybody. So yeah, she was clearly really special. She

890
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: must have been so cool or or a monster depending

891
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: on who you ask, but but smart. Yes, And I

892
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: liked you know, her plan and her sister planet then

893
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: it or having her fun you know, I like to Again,

894
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: she liked to make up and clothes and stuff. I

895
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: imagine she was just a fashion icon. And anyway, she

896
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: liked to brain teaser and she liked to Yeah, she'd

897
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: probably play wordle today. Oh yes, she probably would play

898
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: wordle and post like all Gray Squares and then All

899
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Speaker 1: Green Squares, everyone got into got into another thing about

900
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: archaeology that I always think of that Calvin and Hobbs

901
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: episode where he finds a like a clothes hanger or

902
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Speaker 1: something and he's pretending to be an archaeologist in the future.

903
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: That was this made of bone? Is it a religious

904
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: object or some kind of whatever. I'm like, man, that's

905
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: so true. I feel like, what are they going to

906
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: uncover of ours? And thinking ceremonial use or whatever that

907
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: and it's just like a piece of trash. They'll think we,

908
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, depicted our gods as small four inch rectangles

909
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: that we constantly held in our hands and stared at

910
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: and worshiped. But they'll find little lego figurines like bart

911
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: stems then to be like this must have been a deity.

912
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: Why else would you make an image of them? Right,

913
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 1: They'll be like this, this Calvin character must have been

914
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: a demon, because he's depicted all over vehicles and buildings

915
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: as peeing on things. It's always peeing on various logos,

916
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: some kind of mischievous demon of mythology, which is not

917
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: far off to kind of true. Yea. So yeah, but

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Speaker 1: that's that is our Ancient Egypt episode and hopefully you

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