The History of Egypt Podcast - Dominic Perry

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Introducing: The New Kingdom Nov 13, 2015

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Historical Phase number 3... We are now entering the New Kingdom. What does this mean? Well, that's kind of a big question.

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55: Kamose vs the Hyksos, Blood & Thunder - Second Intermediate Period (Part 4) Nov 09, 2015

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In 1560 BCE, Seqenenre Tao / Ta'a was dead. Killed in battle, the king's body lay on the field, beaten and bloody. Now, the task of ruling the southern kingdom fell to his wife Ahhotep and his son Kamose. The latter would lead a campaign of reprisal, a bloody raid into the heart of enemy territory...

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Garry J. Shaw. “The Death of King Seqenenre Tao.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 2009. Read online at JSTOR.

Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. 2010.

Habachi, L. (1972). The Second Stela of Kamose and His Struggle Against the Hyksos Ruler and His Capital.

Ian Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Warfare, 2019.

William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt.

Spalinger, A. J. (2021). The Books Behind the Masks: Sources of Warfare Leadership in Ancient Egypt. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466111

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Battlefield Mummy: The Brutal Death of Seqenenre Ta'a Nov 02, 2015

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Around 1560 BCE the King of Southern Egypt, Seqen-en-re Ta’a died. His end was violent and bloody. The king was a victim of (anonymous) foes, who tied him up and executed him. The full circumstances of this event are coming to light with new research. Today, we dig into recent studies on the event and its larger context…

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Manfred Bietak, “The Egyptian Community in Avaris During the Hyksos Period,” Egypt and the Levant 26 (2016), 263–74.

Manfred Bietak, “The Many Ethnicities of Avaris,” in J. Budka and J. Auenmüller (eds), From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia (2018): 73–92.

Andrew Curry, “The Rulers of Foreign Lands,” Archaeology 71 (2018), 28–33.

Aidan Dodson and Salima Ikram, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt (1998).

Uroš Matić, Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt (2019).

Sahar N. Saleem and Zahi Hawass, ‘Computed Tomography Study of the Mummy of King Seqenenre Taa II: New Insights Into His Violent Death’, Frontiers in Medicine 8 (2021), 1–10. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2021.637527

Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptian Mummies (1991 Edition).

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54: Three Kingdoms - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 3) Oct 19, 2015

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Around 1560 BCE the Hyksos were supreme. Along with their allies (the Nubians of Kerma), the Hyksos dominated half of the country. Down in the southern regions, the kings of Dynasty 16 struggled to hold their territory...

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Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004 & 2010.

Ian Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Warfare, 2019.

Lazlo Torok, Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region Between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC – AD 500, 2009.

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53: Rulers of Foreign Lands - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 2) Sep 28, 2015

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Second Intermediate Period (Part 2). How did the Hyksos take power? Around 1650 BCE, the 13th Dynasty crumbled away. Foreigners moving into Egypt over previous centuries now consolidated their authority over the north. Or was it an invasion, as classical histories describe?

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Daphna Ben-Tor, “Can Scarabs Argue for the Origin of the Hyksos?” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 1 (2009). FREE on Academia.edu.

Nadine Moeller, et al., “Discussion of Late Middle Kingdom and Early Second Intermediate Period History and Chronology in Relation to the Khayan Sealings From Edfu.” Egypt and the Levant, XXI (2011). FREE on Academia.edu.

Wolfram Grajetzki, “Notes on Administration in the Second Intermediate Period,” The Second Intermediate Period, 2010.

Charlotte Booth, The Hyksos Period in Egypt, 2008.

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52: Two Dynasties at Once - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 1) Sep 14, 2015

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The Second Intermediate Period (Part 1). Around 1700 BCE, different regions of Egypt began to separate. Following a slow decay, a catastrophic famine and plague, and erosion of royal authority, people living in the north decided to find their own way in life.

Date: c. 1700 BCE.
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Episode written in 2014. Edited but not rewritten in 2024.

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Manfred Bietak, “Egypt and Canaan During the Middle Bronze Age,” Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research, 1991.

Janine Bourriau, “The Second Intermediate Period” in The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 2004.

Auaris.at – Official Website of the Austrian Expedition to Avaris (Tell el-Dabaa): General History of the Region; the Avaris Temple.

Irene Forstner-Muller, “Tombs and Burial Customs…” in The Second Intermediate Period: Current Research, Future Prospects, 2010.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Gregory D. Mumford, “Dynasties 13-17: The Second Intermediate Period,” Lecture Series.

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51: Dynasty 13 and the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant Aug 31, 2015

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Dynasty 13: Invisible Kings. From 1770 to 1700, the 13th Dynasty produced a vast number of kings, but we know almost nothing about them, for reasons that remain challenging to understand. We also explore the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, a wonderful story of wrongdoing and the search for justice.

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Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Richard B. Parkinson, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: A reader’s commentary, 2012.

W.K. Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2006. PDF Copy at Archive.org.

Toby Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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50: Queen Sobekneferu and The Debate Between a Man & His Ba Jul 27, 2015

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A Woman King. Around 1776 BCE, the 12th Dynasty was dwindled away. Before it vanished, it produced one last remarkable figure. Neferu-Sobek (or Sobek-Neferu) was Egypt's first recorded female king.

Additionally, we explore the Tale of the Man and his Ba, also known as The Man Who Was Tired of Life.

Date: c. 1776 BCE.
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Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

Wolfram Gratjetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Raymond O. Faulkner, “The Man Who Was Tired of Life,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1956).

Parkinson, R. B. (1997). The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems (1940—1640 BC). Oxford University Press.

Parkinson, R. B. (2002). Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection.

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49: From One Era to Another Jul 13, 2015

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Foreign Settlements. King Amenemhat IV came to power around 1798 BCE. His reign was unremarkable, but big things were happening around Egypt. In this episode, we explore the growing evidence for Canaanite peoples coming to Egypt and settling in large numbers.

Date c.1798 BCE.
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Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Florian Lippke, “The Southern Levant in context. A brief sketch of important figures considering the religious symbol system in the Bronze Ages,” in Egypt and the Near East – the Crossroads. Jana Mynárova, 2011.

Ian Shaw, “Amethyst Mining in the Eastern Desert: A Preliminary Survey at Wadi el-Hudi,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993): 81-97.

Jacke Phillips, “Egyptian Amethyst in the Bronze Age Aegean,” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 1.2 (2009): 9-25.

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48: The Last Flowering of the Middle Kingdom Jun 01, 2015

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King Amen-em-hat III (aka Ny-ma'at-Re) was the last "great" ruler of Dynasty 12. Over forty-six years in power, he would achieve significant things for his royal household. Unfortunately, cracks were beginning to appear in Egypt's kingdom...

Date: c. 1840 BCE.
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Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.

Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

Gregory D. Mumford and Sarah Parcak, “Pharaonic Ventures into the South Sinai,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89 (2003). JSTOR.

Alan B. Lloyd (editor), A Companion to Ancient Egypt, 2010. Google Books preview.

Kerry Muhlstein, “Levantine Thinking in Egypt,” Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature, 2009. Google Books preview.

James P. Allen, “The Historical Inscription of Khnumhotep at Dahshur,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 352 (2008). JSTOR.

R. Neil Hewison, The Fayoum: History and Guide, 2008. Google Books preview.

University College London wesbite: Satire of the Trades; The Labyrinth of Hawara.

Chris Kirby‘s Reconstruction of Biahmu. Youtube.

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