(~2580 BCE · Egypt & the Southeastern Mediterranean)

The Narrator helps his friend deliver the first magician's performance remembered to this day.

Based on Chapter 8 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

For more information about Dedi and his performance, here's a link to a Wikipedia article about him.

To see an adaptation of the swapping heads trick, here is Ali Cook appearing on the first episode of Penn & Teller: Fool Us on YouTube.

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Credits: 

Voice Acting - Geoff Micks

Editing - Geoff Micks

Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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