{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson","title":"Everyday life & afterlife in ancient Egypt (with Renée Dreyfus)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2577,"description":"If you learned about ancient Egypt in school, you likely heard a lot about pharaohs, tombs, and elaborate death rituals. A new exhibition at the de Young Museum juxtaposes this familiar royal history with the lives and afterlives of ordinary citizens. Here, you'll find golden jewelry and shining sarcophagi, but also everyday objects you have likely never seen before: a baby's rattle, a stone headrest, and a jar for cured meat.\n\"We are learning so much more about how people lived who were not royalty,\" says Renée Dreyfus, the curator in charge of ancient art at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.\nRenée oversaw the American debut of \"Treasures of the Pharaohs,\" which expands our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture, fueled by archaeologist Zahi Hawass's recent excavation of the Golden City near Luxor.\nToday on Call 'Em Like Museum, we talk about how ordinary people lived, worked, and prepared for an afterlife in ancient Egypt; Renée's collaborative work with global institutions like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum; and what she has learned during her remarkable 50 years working at FAMSF. Plus: Why the most interesting object in the whole exhibition might just be a wooden chair.\n\nFull transcript of this episode\nSubscribe to the newsletter\nThis episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod\nChapters\nMusic: www.purple-planet.com\n\nImages:\nSeveral images courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\nThe de Young Museum\nThe Legion of Honor\nVincent Price\nBrooklyn Museum\nThe Golden City of Aten\nAmenhotep III\nZahi Hawass\nSitamun\n\nVideos:\nVideo from Treasures of the Pharaohs, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R3vVVmzGNQz0jMgSg7uznIO-cko06gdiz9lG9pi3elA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MTA0/ZmM2NTdlOTJjZGZk/NDA0MGI2M2IxNmU1/NWE0MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}