Egyptologist Laurel Bestock Answers Questions on Ancient Egypt from Twitter | WIRED

Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology Laurel Bestock answers your questions about ancient Egypt from Twitter. What did ancient Egyptians sound like? Why is King Tut so enduringly popular? What ancient Egyptian medicine and tools do we still use in modern times? Why did they practice mummification? Answers to these questions and many more await—it's Egyptology Support.

Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Francis Bernal
Editor: Louville Moore
Talent: Laurel Bestock
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production & Equipment Manager: Kevin Balash
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Anne Marie Halovanic
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow

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0:00 Your ancient Egypt questions answered
0:12 The beginnings of ancient Egypt
0:51 How the sphinx lost its nose
1:38 How did ancient Egyptian language sound?
2:25 Ancient Egyptian tech we still use today
3:04 Were there bars in ancient Egypt?
3:45 How accurate is Assassins Creed Origins?
4:35 Why is King Tut so popular?
5:45 How the Great Pyramid of Giza was built
7:20 Who was the best pharaoh?
7:54 Do the pyramids in Egypt match the ones in Mexico?
9:13 Why did ancient Egypt fall?
9:27 Wait, Cleopatra was Greek?
10:05 Ancient Egyptian innovations
10:41 We deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
11:23 Ancient Egyptian art
12:14 Mummies…why
13:30 Ancient Egyptian brain extraction
14:02 What did ancient Egyptians eat?
14:47 How did the Rosetta Stone decipher hieroglyphs?
16:00 The Egyptian Book of the Dead
16:50 Scarabs in ancient Egypt
17:24 Women’s stature in ancient Egyptian society
17:49 Did ancient Egyptians like sex? (Yes)
18:22 Do all ancient Egyptian deities have animal heads?
18:53 New tech leads to new discoveries

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