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Dec 2020
1h 24m

Egypt & Nubia with Dr. Aaron de Souza

DOMINIC PERRY
About this episode
Aaron de Souza is an archaeologist specializing in the material culture of Egypt and Nubia. He earned his PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney, in 2016, and is now a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna. In the field, Aaron works with ceramics and material culture, particularly in cemetery contexts. He has published sev ... Show More
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