The History of Egypt

By Dominic Perry

Ancient Egypt, from Creation to Cleopatra. This podcast tells the story of pharaonic Egypt "in their own words." Using archaeology, ancient texts, and up-to-date scholarship, we uncover the world of t... more

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April 25, 201658: The Great Turnaround
Conquering Syria. Around 1519 BCE a new King came to power. Thutmose I (Aa-kheper-ka-Re) immediately began securing his rule. He married a cousin (or sister) of his predecessor, then launched two military campaigns. In the process he travelled further than any ruler had done before...
Date c.1519 BCE
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Select Bibliography:
Anthony Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.
Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004 and 2010.
James Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905, 1909 and 1964.
James Breasted, Records of Ancient Egypt, Volume II, 1906.

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April 11, 201657: All Things Good and Pure
Amunhotep I and the Splendour of Thebes. The podcast returns from hiatus, following the death of a close family member. Around 1530 BCE, King Ahmose I died and Amunhotep I came to power. At this time, the city of Waset (Thebes) was beginning to gain wealth and prominence, thanks to the exploits of its military. Prosperity grew and non-royal tombs show a growing sense of vitality...
Date c.1530 BCE
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Sjef Willockx, “Three Tombs, attributed to Amenhotep I“
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.
Nicolas Grimal. A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.
Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.
Ian J. Shaw (ed.) – The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 2000 (Google Books)
Leonard H. Lesko (ed.) – Pharaoh’s Workers: The Villagers of Deir el-Medina, 1994.
Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, 2011.
William Peck, The Material World of Ancient Egypt, 2013.
Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose Ibana.
Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet.
semataui.de – Amunhotep I (website)
ucl.ac.uk – Amunhotep I (website)
euler.slu.edu – Amunhotep I (website)

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1h 5min
January 01, 2016Dancers for God
Interlude: Dance the Magic Dance!
Egyptians had many festivals, and they celebrated these with great energy. Whether it was dancing for a wealthy hostess, or leaping over charging bulls, or just getting totally drunk at a festival, the Egyptians did it all...
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Adolf Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, 1894 (1971 edition).
Barbara Mertz, Red Land Black Land:Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, 1966 (2009 edition).
Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, 2011.
William Kelly Simpson(editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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14min
December 21, 201556c: A Royal Funeral
How to Bury a King. Around 1530 BCE, King Ahmose I died. With his death and burial, the Second Intermediate Period ended and the New Kingdom began. We explore the funeral of a truly great monarch...
Date c. 1530 BCE.
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Emily Teeter. Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt. 2011.
Steven Snape. Ancient Egyptian Tombs: the Culture of Life and Death. 2011. Google Books.
Aidan Dodson. “The Burials of Ahmose I” in Studies in Honor of Kent R. Weeks. 2010.
Edward F. Wente. “Who Was Who Among the Royal Mummies.” 1995. Read for Free Here. Follow-up discussion by the same author here.
University College London website – The Opening of the Mouth.

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24min
December 07, 201556b: Restoring Splendour
A Kingdom Resurgent. Around 1540 BCE, the warriors of Thebes (Waset) were chasing their enemies. King Ahmose I and his soldiers pursued the Hyksos, straining to reach that ultimate victory, and re-unify The Two Lands.
Date c. 1540 BCE.
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Robert K. Ritner and Nadine Moeller. “The Ahmose ‘Tempest’ Stela, Thera and Comparative Chronology,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2014. Read for Free at Academia.edu.
W. Vivian Davies, “The Tomb of Ahmose Son-of-Ibana at Elkab, Documenting the Family and Other Observations,” Elkab and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Luc Limme, 2009. Read for Free at Academia.edu.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.
Nicolas Grimal. A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.
Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.
Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose Ibana.
Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet.

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41min
November 23, 201556: The Return of the King
Warfare Along the Nile. Around 1550 BCE, the young King Ahmose I was pursuing battle against the enemy Hyksos. The King and his mother, Ahhotep, pummeled their foes mercilessly. But they also took time to raise friends to high places...
Date c.1550 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:
Reshafim.org – The Autobiography of Ahmose son of Ibana.
Irene Forstner-Muller, “Avaris, its Harbours and the Peru-nefer Problem,” Egyptian Archaeology 45 (2014). Read for free online at Academia.edu.
W. Vivian Davies, “The Tomb of Ahmose Son-of-Ibana at Elkab, Documenting the Family and Other Observations,” Elkab and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Luc Limme, 2009. Read for free at Academia.edu.
Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010.
William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2006.
Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.

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36min
November 13, 2015Introducing: The New Kingdom
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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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.

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5min
November 09, 201555: Blood and Thunder (Kamose vs Hyksos)
Second Intermediate Period (Part 4). 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.
William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt.
Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt. 2005.
Reshafim.org – The Kamose Inscriptions.

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26min
November 02, 2015Battlefield Mummy: The Brutal Death of Seqenenre Ta'a
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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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com,

Music by Ancient Lyric www.bettinajoydeguzman.com.

Select Bibliography:
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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25min
October 19, 201554: Three Kingdoms
Second Intermediate Period (Part 3). Around 1560 BCE the Hyksos were supreme over Egypt. 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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Select Bibliography:
Anthony J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 2005
Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004 & 2010.
Lazlo Torok, Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region Between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC – AD 500, 2009.

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