Podcast and extended Ancient Egypt interview
Added 2025-03-18 06:30:00 +0000 UTCYou can listen to the latest episode of the Time Team podcast by clicking here.
Patreon members can also watch this extended interview with Professor Joyce Tyldesley OBE. There's nothing she doesn't know about Ancient Egypt so Helen Geake and Martyn Williams took the opportunity to ask her to delve deeper into Egyptian society.
Also on this week's podcast; Lawrence Shaw previews this weekend's expedition crew dig at Farley Moor, Naomi Sewpaul demonstrates floatation and Helen answers more of your questions.
If you have a question for Helen then post it in the comments. We'd love to get you an answer on a future episode.
Comments
Thanks Drew, what a kind thing to say! A great question too
Martyn Williams
2025-04-01 19:33:31 +0000 UTCI have a question for Time Team’s own Anglo-Saxon Queen - Helen! I’ve just finished reading Marc Morris’s book The Anglo-Saxons - A History of the Beginnings of England 400-1066. The book really gave me a sound understanding, with its use of primary documents, of how the Anglo-Saxon period played out. Especially, the evolution of the various kingdoms and the eventual influence of Scandinavian culture via the vikings. My question is… Do archaeological finds that differentiate Anglo-Saxon culture from viking culture generally respect the mapped areas they occupied as described by primary sources? Or…is there a more diffuse pattern? Thank you Martyn and Helen! Very much appreciate everyone’s hard work! Drew Calderwood
Andrew Calderwood
2025-03-25 21:22:25 +0000 UTCWe love the podcast and greatly appreciate your efforts to answer all the questions. Today we had the delight of seeing the Galloway Hoard exhibition at the South Australian Museum. It was wonderful seeing all those items up close rather than on a screen. As with all good exhibitions it left us thinking. How often were decoy layers left over hoards? Neither of us had heard of this before. As a separate question, and not due to any image in the exhibition, our New Zealand visitors want to know how accurate is the old history book depiction of Vikings wearing horned helmets? Andrew and Marion Kidd Redbanks South Australia
Andrew Kidd
2025-03-25 09:26:12 +0000 UTCVery special podcast. So much new & thought-provoking info to help reevaluate my understanding. Must return to Egypt at first opportunity. Cheers, Ross
Ross G. Kreamer
2025-03-23 12:58:42 +0000 UTCHow much has and is Napoleon expedition to Egypt has affected the study of Egyptology?
Chris DeAngelo
2025-03-22 21:16:45 +0000 UTCReally interesting, and congratulations to Professor Joyce Tyldesley OBE for the award.
Jason Bradbury
2025-03-21 18:47:04 +0000 UTCThis was absolutely fascinating
Henrik Vogt
2025-03-20 22:13:45 +0000 UTCThanks Alan
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:59:43 +0000 UTCHi Marianne, I'm not sure the book has a title yet as it's still being written. Keep an eye out for it when it's published. Martyn
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:59:35 +0000 UTCThanks Terri
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:58:52 +0000 UTCThanks Donna. Strange about the subtitles!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:58:42 +0000 UTCThanks for listening!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:58:26 +0000 UTCA pleasure, Janie
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:58:15 +0000 UTCGlad you enjoyed it
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:58:04 +0000 UTCSo are we, Barbara!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:57:53 +0000 UTCThanks Nic!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-19 11:57:44 +0000 UTCThat was a superb podcast team! And congrats to the Prof💪
nic vipond
2025-03-19 04:58:40 +0000 UTCI'm so pleased that we can look forward to weekly podcast episodes!
Barbara Bitgood
2025-03-19 01:33:11 +0000 UTCThis brought back so many memories of my time many years ago doing my degree in classics and ancient history studying Latin,Greek,middle Egyptian and Akkadian and then doing doing a trip around the eastern Mediterranean and Italy to see it all. Thank you so much.Ioved it.
Rosemary Cormack
2025-03-19 00:54:12 +0000 UTCBeen following Eyptology since I was 10 years old (and THAT is a very lonnnnng time). Joyce Tyldesley is a gem. Some long-duration questions in my brain have finally been answered. Thank you for this one. :)
Janie Waters
2025-03-18 22:46:59 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this podcast episode. It’s so well done. Very grateful to everyone involved. 🙏❤️
Sarah Pethan
2025-03-18 20:55:09 +0000 UTCI’m rewatching the original Time Team series. Why have we not seen an example of an Iron Age (or earlier) bathroom (or loo!). Where are these? Too old for the archaeological evidence perhaps? 2nd- How do scientists theorize people bathed & what kind of soap could they have made? Has there been any evidence of bathing “kits”. I know that combs have been found, for example.
Sarah Pethan
2025-03-18 20:52:48 +0000 UTCMy subtitles keep switching to a Scandinavia language. Weird. Great information. The science of smells is intriguing!
Donna Oldenkamp
2025-03-18 18:31:44 +0000 UTCWomen were overlooked for years in Egyptian studies
Terri Brown
2025-03-18 15:51:48 +0000 UTCThank you for making it more tangible and relatable
Terri Brown
2025-03-18 15:47:02 +0000 UTCCongratulations!
Terri Brown
2025-03-18 15:44:44 +0000 UTCI'd love Professor Tyldesley's new book on Egyptian women. Can you post the title please.
Marianne Richards MSc.
2025-03-18 14:56:57 +0000 UTCWell done! Congratulations!
Alan McMillan
2025-03-18 14:19:47 +0000 UTC
