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56c: 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. W…
10 years, 8 months ago
56b: 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, s…
10 years, 8 months ago
56: Return of the King - Ahmose I & the Re-Unification of Egypt
Warfare Along the Nile. Around 1550 BCE, King Ahmose I reunified Egypt and expelled the Hyksos lords. Historically, the Second Intermediate Period en…
10 years, 9 months ago
Introducing: 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.
Website: www.egyptianhist…10 years, 9 months ago
55: Kamose vs the Hyksos, Blood & Thunder - 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 southe…
10 years, 9 months ago
Battlefield 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 tie…
10 years, 9 months ago
54: Three Kingdoms - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 3)
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 southe…
10 years, 10 months ago
53: Rulers of Foreign Lands - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 2)
Second Intermediate Period (Part 2). How did the Hyksos take power? Around 1650 BCE, the 13th Dynasty crumbled away. Foreigners moving into Egypt ove…
10 years, 11 months ago
52: Two Dynasties at Once - The Second Intermediate Period (Part 1)
The Second Intermediate Period (Part 1). Around 1700 BCE, different regions of Egypt began to separate. Following a slow decay, a catastrophic famine…
10 years, 11 months ago
51: Dynasty 13 and the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
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 …
11 years ago