crumbled into the hands of a few elite families scattered across the Sahara

desert. Although financially prosperous, these dark ages drove the land of

Egypt into disarray and allowed for a new leader to reunify the kingdom. Known

as an age of great cultural, militaristic, and societal achievement, the Middle

Kingdom is considered a golden age of Egyptian history. But was this new system

sustainable? And what forces brought it crashing down. On this episode we

discuss the Middle Kingdom.