
Anniversary: The Tomb of Tutankhamun
11/04/22 • 432 min
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Hardcore Edition. In a special presentation, I compile my “Tomb of Tutankhamun” miniseries into a single mega episode. With updated information, and some new revelations, this 7-hour special is the full story, as best I can tell it.
Reference materials:
- For the full archive of Harry Burton’s photographs, showing the tomb of Tutankhamun in its original state, at the Griffith Institute.
- See other images, including the treasures, at Wikimedia.
- The Tomb of Tutankhamun at The Theban Mapping Project.
- The life and reign of Tutankhamun at The History of Egypt Podcast.
The Tomb of Tutankhamun episodes (with references and pictures):
- Part 1 (Chapters 1 to 5).
- Part 2 (Chapters 6 and 7).
- Part 3 (Chapters 8 and 9).
- Part 4 (Chapters 10 to 12).
- Part 5 (Chapters 13 and 14).
- Part 6 (Chapters 15 and 16).
- The “DNA Study” (Episode 128).
- The Tomb of Nefertiti (Episode 137b).
Episode Details
- Date: 1340 BCE and 1922 - 1932 CE.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
- Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast.
- Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments.
- Logo image: The gold mummy mask of Tutankhamun via Wikimedia.
- Music by Keith Zizza https://www.keithzizza.net/
- Music by Michael Levy http://www.ancientlyre.com/
- Music by Ancient Lyric http://www.bettinajoydeguzman.com/
- Sound interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos
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Hardcore Edition. In a special presentation, I compile my “Tomb of Tutankhamun” miniseries into a single mega episode. With updated information, and some new revelations, this 7-hour special is the full story, as best I can tell it.
Reference materials:
- For the full archive of Harry Burton’s photographs, showing the tomb of Tutankhamun in its original state, at the Griffith Institute.
- See other images, including the treasures, at Wikimedia.
- The Tomb of Tutankhamun at The Theban Mapping Project.
- The life and reign of Tutankhamun at The History of Egypt Podcast.
The Tomb of Tutankhamun episodes (with references and pictures):
- Part 1 (Chapters 1 to 5).
- Part 2 (Chapters 6 and 7).
- Part 3 (Chapters 8 and 9).
- Part 4 (Chapters 10 to 12).
- Part 5 (Chapters 13 and 14).
- Part 6 (Chapters 15 and 16).
- The “DNA Study” (Episode 128).
- The Tomb of Nefertiti (Episode 137b).
Episode Details
- Date: 1340 BCE and 1922 - 1932 CE.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
- Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast.
- Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments.
- Logo image: The gold mummy mask of Tutankhamun via Wikimedia.
- Music by Keith Zizza https://www.keithzizza.net/
- Music by Michael Levy http://www.ancientlyre.com/
- Music by Ancient Lyric http://www.bettinajoydeguzman.com/
- Sound interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos
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173: A Forgotten Campaign
To Vile Carchemish. In Year 16, King Horemheb may have led a "campaign of victory" to the far north. An artefact identified in the 1970s, but lost for decades, testifies to these events... but what do they mean?
Episode details:
- Date: c.1316 BCE.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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- Music intro: Keith Zizza.
- Music interludes and outro: Luke Chaos.
- Logo: Horemheb smiting prisoners before Ptah. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Select Bibliography:
- A. Ahrens, ‘New Light on the Amarna Period from the Northern Levant: A Clay Sealing with the Throne Name of Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV from the Royal Palace at Tall Mišrife/Qatna, in: Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 5 (2012): 232-248’, Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 5 (2012), 232—248.
- A. Ahrens, ‘Pharao Haremhab und die nördliche Levante. Bemerkungen zu einem Skarabäenabdruck aus Tell Mišrife/Qatna, in: Ugarit-Forschungen 45, In memoriam Oswald Loretz (2014): 1-9’, Ugarit-Forschungen 45 (2014), 1—9.
- E. Devecchi and J. L. Miller, ‘Hittite-Egyptian Synchronisms and their Consequences for Ancient Near Eastern Chronology’, in J. Mynářová (ed.), Egypt and the Near East – The Crossroads (Prague, 2011), 139—176.
- H. Gauthier, Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques (Paris, 1925).
- R. Gautschy, ‘A Reassessment of the Absolute Chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom and its “Brotherly” Countries’, Egypt and the Levant 24 (2014), 141—158.
- N. Grimal, ‘L’offrande d’un vétéran de l’an 16 d’Ḥoremḥeb’, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) (2018), 319—338.
- B. Lagarce-Othman, ‘Un nouveau vase inédit d’Horemheb’, in V. Matoïan and M. al-Maqdissi (eds), Études Ougaritiques III, Ras Shamra–Ougarit XXI (Leuven, 2013), 347—364.
- V. Matoïan, ‘Ugarit et l’Égypte: essai d’interprétation de la documentation archéologique et perspectives de la recherche’, in B. Eder and R. Pruzsinszky (eds), Policies of Exchange Political Systems and Modes of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millenium B.C.E, Proceedings of the International Symposium at the University of Freiburg Institute for Archaeological Studies, 30th May – 2nd June 2012, 2 (Vienna, 2015), 35—84.
- J. L. Miller, ‘Amarna Age Chronology and the Identity of Nibḫururiya In the Light of a Newly Reconstructed Hittite Text’, Altorientalische Forschungen 34 (2007), 252—293.
- D. B. Redford, ‘New Light on the Asiatic Campaigning of Ḥoremheb’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 211 (1973), 36—49.
- D. B. Redford, ‘A Head-Smiting Scene from the 10th Pylon’, in M. Görg (ed.), Fontes Atque Pontes. Eine Festgrabe für Hellmut Brunner (Wiesbaden, 1983), 362—373.
- Z. Simon, ‘Kann Armā mit Haremhab gleichgesetzt werden?’, Altorientalische Forschungen 36 (2009), 340—348.
- G. Wilhelm, ‘Muršilis II. Konflikt mit Ägypten und Haremhabs Thronbesteigung’, Die Welt des Orients 39 (2009), 108—116.
- J. A. Wilson, ‘Egyptian Historical Texts’, in J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement (1978), 227–64.
- W. Wreszinski, Atlas zur altaegyptischen Kulturgeschichte (Geneva, 1988).
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Interview: The Tomb of Tutankhamun with Dr. Bob Brier
Tutankhamun, Mummies, and Murder, oh my! I sat down with Dr. Bob Brier to discuss the Tomb of Tutankhamun, and the legacy of this important discovery. We also chatted about Dr. Brier's work in Egyptology, including his experiment in mummifying a human for scientific research. Finally, we touched on some older works including his "Murder of Tutankhamun" hypothesis and the Great Pyramid's construction (including the "internal ramp" hypothesis of Jean-Pierre Houdin).
My thanks to Dr. Brier for coming on the show, and for allowing me to release the video version! Extra special thanks to Pat Remler for organising the conversation!
- Preorder Dr. Brier's book Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World from Oxford University Press.
- Read a report on Carter's thefts at The Guardian.
- Find Dr. Brier's hierogylphs lessons (and others) at The Great Courses.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
- Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast.
- Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments.
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