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  • Restitution after Reuse: How 21st Dynasty Egyptian Rulers Healed the Harms Done to Royal Coffins and Mummified Kings

    Restitution after Reuse: How 21st Dynasty Egyptian Rulers Healed the Harms Done to Royal Coffins and Mummified Kings
    Nov 6 2025
    Kara and Amber return to the royal caches for Part II of their deep dive into the coffins reused for the re-Osirification (!!) of Thutmose III and Ramses II. Building on her new open-access article in Arts, Kara lays out how 20th–21st Dynasty priests “withdrew” value from royal burials during crisis and then ritually “paid it back,” stripping sheet gold but restoring a solar substitute (thin gilding or even just yellow washes of paint), covering coffin interiors with Osirian black resins, adding protective iconography and red paint as apotropaic force fields, and re-adding elements of kingship and human agency. Along the way, Kara and Amber map the politics of reuse within the royal caches of KV35 (the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings) and TT320 (a reused 18th Dynasty queens tomb at Deir el Bahari used to rebury “preferred” kings and queens and the final resting place of many of the Amen Priesthood). They discuss whether or not the coffin reused for Thutmose III was originally made for him, and consider the material record through feminist and new-materialist lenses, looking at how ritual tries to reconcile scarcity, power, and piety. It’s a practical guide to what Egyptians thought were the essential ritual elements for a king to transform—gold/solar, earth/Osiris, iconography/protection, kingship, and human agency—and why they were significant.Show notesFor a discussion of the ritual repair of mummies from the Deir el Bahri 320 cache, check out Afterlives of Ancient Egypt, Episode #88.For more about Thutmose III and the veneration of royal ancestors, check out Afterlives of Ancient Egypt, Episode #83.SourcesBrown, Nicholas. 2020. “Raise Me Up and Repel My Weariness! A study of the coffin of Thutmose III (CG 61014).” MDAIK 76/77: 11-35.Cooney, Kathlyn. “Surviving New Kingdom Kings’ Coffins: Restoring the Art That Was.” Arts 2025, 14(3), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14030057.Cooney, Kara. 2024. Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press. [Buy it on Amazon or on the AUCP website.] Get full access to Ancient/Now at ancientnow.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Cleopatra, Patriarchy, and the Trap of Honor

    Cleopatra, Patriarchy, and the Trap of Honor
    Oct 24 2025

    CW// self-harm and suicide

    Kara and Amber take on the most famous death in all of antiquity—Cleopatra VII’s—and ask what “honor” really means when the sources are Roman, i.e. biased AF, and the stakes are imperial, that is Octavian is using Cleopatra’s fall to condense all power into the hands of one person, his own.

    Starting with a timeline of events, Kara and Amber unpack Octavian’s propaganda about Cleopatra’s death by suicide, and Kara argues that the suicide story serves Rome far more than it serves Egypt’s last queen. Using David Graeber’s Debt as a lens, they consider the ways in which honor, debt, and violence travel together in patriarchal systems—and how those rules are gendered. Antony’s suicide reads as “honorable,” while Cleopatra’s is framed as hysterical and selfish and maternal abandonment—all the worst things a woman within patriarchy could do. They probe the politics of narratives about “honor” that trap women who rule (with nods to Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Zenobia). The result is a sharp, feminist read of Cleopatra’s end.

    Or, as Kara likes to say: Suicide my ass… he straight up killed her and lied about it.

    Fight me. :)

    Show notes

    David Graeber’s Debt

    Check out our other episodes on Cleopatra:

    Episode #57 – Reception, Ownership, and Race: Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”

    Episode #60 – Part II: Reception, Ownership, and Race: Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”

    Episode #82 – The Death of Cleopatra: Murder or Suicide?



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  • How ancient societies collapsed

    How ancient societies collapsed
    Oct 19 2025


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Absolutely love this podcast. I’ve learned so much. The depth and the freedom around every subject. It’s an adhd woman’s (like me) dream. Thank you!

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I started listening to this podcast after a re-read/re-listen to “The Good Kings.” I just love how the podcast is accessible to non-academics while still being deep, thought provoking and informative. I’m a middle school history teacher, and this podcast helps fuel my historian fire! Also, I love that this is ancient history by smart women for smart women.

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March 2023 REVIEW: I started listening to this podcast over a year ago and have kept up with it ever since. Episodes are released about twice a month and either answer submitted audience questions or host a quest speaker from the Egyptology or wider Humanities field. There has even been a book club discussion on the Amelia Peabody series! Dr. Kara Cooney does a great job of connecting her Ancient Egypt expertise to our modern realities, and this podcast highlights topics that might not be possible in traditionally academic spaces.

This podcast is for enthusiasts of Ancient Egypt, members of academia or with Humanities backgrounds, and readers of Cooney's body of work. So glad to be re-reviewing this in celebration of Women's History Month, March 2023.

Feb 2022 REVIEW: I loved Kara Cooney’s nonfiction trade book “When Women Ruled the World” and am so glad I found her podcast “Afterlives with Kara Cooney”. Kara and her host, PhD candidate Jordan, have a healthy medley of discussions about academic life and expectations, modern US politics, and of course Egyptology! Founded during the pandemic as a way to spice up virtual learning for their students, this podcast is topical and engaging.

I am a woman in STEM, so it was refreshing to witness academia from a humanities perspective. Episodes are an hour or two long, so this was great to have on while completing hands-on laboratory and workshop tasks. I don’t agree with all of their opinions, but I don’t see our differences as a bad thing. This is exactly the type of podcast I needed; these intelligent women are informative, approachable, and chill.

This is also great hype for Kara’s new book “The Good Kings”, which is high on my To Read List. I recommend Kara’s work to those interested in Egyptology, coffin reuse, power in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt kingship, archaeology, anthropology, ancient history, strong female authors, feminism, US politics, and history trade books.

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