Episode 22: Pepy Lives

Ruling the World. King Pepy ruled long and his authority reached far and wide. To understand Egyptian society in this period, we must meet the important families (nobility) who served Pepy, and see how their actions shape our understanding of history...

• Date c.2260 - 2240 BCE.
• Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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• Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
• Logo image: Miniature Brewing Vat, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/543893.

Select Bibliography:

• Deborah Vischak, Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa, 2014 (Google Books): 225-238.
• Ancient Egypt Online – Pepy II
• William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
• Nicolas Grimal, A History of Egypt, 1994.

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