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The final lecture in the Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt series is on Cleopatra. Now, I’ve been down on Dr. Brier for including so much… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Cleopatra

Episode 10 of Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt doesn’t really talk about a pharaoh, because their time has passed. This episode is about Alexander the… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Alexander the Great: Anatomy of a Legend

This is very, very late, and I hope you’ll forgive me. However, I’m afraid that’s going to happen again. I’m heading off on an adventure… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Rameses, the Decline and Fall?

The Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt course embarks on an episode about a pharaoh known as “the Great,” which is only fitting. Wow, that’s a tortured… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Rameses the Great

Here we are to chat about the second Tutankhamen lecture from Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. You were expecting this earlier, I know. As I… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Tutankhamen’s Murder Mystery

Although this episode is titled Tutankhamen – The Lost Pharaoh, it really isn’t so much about Tutankhamen as it is about the finding of his… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Tutankhamen

Welcome back to the Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt listen through, and this time we’re looking at someone as different in his own way as… Read More »Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – Akhenaten