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Dinner with King Tut Explores the Wild World of Experimental Archaeology

Dinner with King Tut Explores the Wild World of Experimental Archaeology

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In his new book, Sam Kean reveals how re-creating ancient tools, techniques and traditions can unlock secrets about how our ancestors lived—and what they felt.

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Science writer Sam Kean joins Science Quickly to explore the
hands-on world of experimental archaeology—where researchers don’t
just study the past; they rebuild it. From launching medieval
catapults to performing ancient brain surgery with stone tools,
Kean shares his firsthand experiences with re-creating the
techniques and technologies of long-lost civilizations. His latest
book, Dinner with King Tut, dives deep into these wild experiments
and the things they have revealed about how our ancestors lived,
worked and ate. Recommended reading: Scientists Used Prehistoric
Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan
to Japan Denmark’s Radical Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in
Gold and Knowledge Dinner with King Tut, by Sam Kean; Little,
Brown, 2025 Sam Kean’s website Join the #SciAmInTheWild photography
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Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper and Jeff DelViscio. This
episode was edited by Alex Sugiura. Shayna Posses and Aaron
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