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May 2022

31m 36s

161: Horus Takes the Crown

About this episode

The Coronation of King Hor-em-heb. A few months after he took power, Egypt's new pharaoh Horemheb ("Horus in Celebration") celebrated his rule. It was a magnificent party...

Episode details:

Date: c.1330 BCE.
Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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Logo: Horemheb's royal names, from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. MMA.
Music interludes by Luke Chaos twitter.com/luke_chaos.

Select Bibliography:

K. M. Bryson, ‘The Reign of Horemheb: History, Historiography, and the Dawn of the Ramesside Era’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2018).
Gardiner, ‘The Coronation of King Ḥaremḥab’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39 (1953), 13–31.
W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

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