Dominic Perry
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Ancient Egypt, from Creation to Cleopatra. This podcast tells the story of pharaonic Egypt "in their own words." Using archaeology, ancient texts, and up-to-date scholarship, we uncover the world of the Nile Valley and its people. Hosted on the Airwave Media Network.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ancient texts, temple art, and scholarly conversations reveal how Egyptians recorded power, remembered rulers, and imagined worlds beyond life.
Dominic makes ancient Egypt legible by asking how its people represented power, memory, and the afterlife. The History of Egypt Podcast moves between focused solo narration and interviews with named scholars, using primary sources carefully while leaving room for uncertainty.
Even the pharaoh's afterlife had guarded instructions; your curiosity gets the key.
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A vivid, carefully qualified portrait of Spinosaurus in the sea-covered land that would become Egypt.
The episode opens on a hot, shallow sea covering the land that will become Egypt, with mangrove roots, dragonflies, fish, and serpents crowding a world before the Nile River or Sahara Desert.
A painted tomb turns eternity into a question of knowledge, ritual, and what can still be recovered.
Nefertari's tomb comes across as more than a dazzling royal burial. Its painted walls are treated as a guide to the future the queen imagined after death, moving from the Valley of the Queens to the color, hieroglyphs, and Book of the Dead passages that link the afterlife with…
A worker's complaint and a priest's reminder open everyday Egyptian documents onto labor, worship, and authority.
Ancient Egyptian paperwork gives this episode its path into work, authority, and religious duty. Around 1290 BCE, give or take, Pa Baki, a scribe near Deir el-Medina, writes to his father about Ebi, a new worker added to his team at his father's request.
A royal jubilee takes shape after a season of deaths, with Memphis prepared for Rameses II's ceremony.
Rameses II's third decade moves from public triumph into private loss, then toward a ceremony designed to renew the king's authority. The episode follows the deaths and burials of Queen Nefertiti, the queen mother Tui, or Tuya, and Amun-Her-Kopeshef near the king's own tomb,…
Shelley's Ozymandias leads into a clear, grounded reading of Ramesses II's colossal statues.
The episode opens with Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 poem Ozymandias, then uses its ideas about ambition, decay, and artistic survival to reach the colossal statues of Ramesses II.
A royal jubilee narrows into an Apis burial where jewellery, shabtis, and a small tomb make devotion feel tangible.
The episode begins with Ramesses II's first jubilee, a thirty-year celebration of ritual, strength, offerings, and royal abundance, before narrowing to the funeral of an Apis bull at Saqqara.
A myth of poison, hidden names, and the price of cosmic power.
The story treats Iset and Ra as a study in leverage, vulnerability, and the weight carried by a name. Iset does not win by force alone. She creates a crisis, waits for Ra to weaken, and uses that opening to push him toward the hidden name tied to his power.
Abu Simbel comes into focus when temple scale, Nubian geography, and Ramesses II's larger aims are set side by side.
Abu Simbel is framed here less as a celebrated ruin than as a site whose meaning emerges through context: the small temple for Nefertari, the larger setting around it, and the way Hathor, protection, and afterlife imagery are tied together across the complex.
Greek myth told with fatal momentum.
Ancient empire told in old public-domain voices.
This segment discusses the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum and the display of Tutankhamun's artifacts during the 2025-2026 excavation season.
Episode 229 of an Egyptology podcast examines Prince Khaemwaset, fourth son of Ramesses II, who served as Sem Priest of Ptah at Memphis around 1263 BCE.
Ka-em-waset, son of Ramesses II, comes across as a prince with a scholar's mind.
Matteo and Matthew open a multi-part look at Belisarius, a general praised and decorated in the ancient world but often overlooked now.
Rameses II announces a treaty with Hattusili III in regnal year 21.
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The show enters the Egyptian Book of Gates through the burial of Horemheb, then uses that tomb to open up the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, as a connected realm shaped by geography, spirits, gods, and danger.
Peter Brand joins the conversation to revisit Kadesh.
The episode centers on the great temple at Abu Simbel, the monument constructed for Ramesses II beside the temple of Nefertari.
Chris Stewart welcomes Professor Peter Brand back to continue the story of Ramesses II after the Battle of Kadesh.
This livestream episode looks at the art of Kadesh.
Ramesses II is in his northern palace at Pyramaces when a delegation of Hittites arrives with a diplomatic package.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 poem Ozymandias is traced to a real Ramesside monument at the Ramesseum in Luxor, where the shattered colossus of Ramesses II survives with inscriptions on its body and back.
The goddess takes center stage.
This episode of The History of Egypt Podcast features an interview with Dr.
The History of Egypt Podcast episode 218, 'Give Me Back My Donkey!
The History of Egypt Podcast revisits “Dinosaurs of Egypt (2026 Revised Edition)” with a new science-based account of Egypt 100 million years ago, when the Sahara sat under the waters of Tethys.
Ramesses comes home from Kadesh with a problem.
The History of Egypt Podcast episode on Nefertari's Tomb and the Book of the Dead focuses on the queen's decorated burial chamber in the Valley of the Queens near modern Luxor.
Nefertari enters the story as a very young woman.
The episode opens on the ruined battlefield at Kadesh.
Abu Simbel begins with scale.
A narrative episode describing a foreign embassy arriving at the Egyptian capital Pyramaces around 1260 BCE.
The host promotes an interview about his podcast's evolution and shares a preview discussing his approach to covering ancient Egyptian civilization.
The host previews a bonus episode featuring a heavy metal adaptation of Ramesses II's account of the Battle of Kadesh, available to Patreon subscribers.
This episode discusses the costs and organization of tomb construction for workers in Deir el-Medina during the early 19th dynasty.
This episode explains how pharaoh Seti I planned and constructed his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, drawing on archaeological records from Deir el-Medinah.
An interview with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones about his book on the forgotten queens of Egypt named Cleopatra.
This bonus episode explores a Czech musical project's concept album based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
This episode explores the story of Seth and the reign of Pharaoh Men-Ma'at-Ra around 1300 BCE.