The History of Egypt Podcast1 Aug 2023

185: Sety and Ramesses, House of the Rising Son

Ramesses II: Prince of Egypt. When Sety I took power, his eldest son was probably 10—15 years old. The King's Son Ra-messes (“Born of Ra”) enjoyed a privileged upbringing. And by the time he was physically mature, the young prince was ready to expand the royal household. His father Sety had some plans in that regard… Details and sources: Date: c. 1299 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music intro: Keith Zizza. Music interludes and outro: Luke Chaos. Texts: Kenneth Kitchen's Ramesside Inscriptionsvolume 1. Hieroglyph versions at Internet Archive, English translations at Abercromby Press. Peter Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh, out now from Lockwood Press. Select Bibliography: P. J. Brand, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis (2000). P. J. Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh (2023). A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004). M. M. Fisher, The Sons of Ramesses II (2001). D. C. Forbes, The Royal Mummies Caches (TT320 & KV35) (2015). W. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary (2005). J. E. Harris and K. R. Weeks, X-Raying the Pharaohs (1973). Z. Hawass and S. N. Saleem, Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging in the New Kingdom Royal Mummies (2016). K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Historical and Biographical, III (1980). K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations, II (2017). W. J. Murnane, ‘The Earlier Reign of Ramesses II and His Coregency with Sety I’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34 (1975), 153–90. K. C. Seele, The Coregency of Ramses II with Seti I and the Date of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (1940). A. J. Spalinger, The Great Dedicatory Inscription of Ramesses II: A Solar-Osirian Tractate at Abydos (2009). J. Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh (2001). J. Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt (2006). T. Wilkinson, Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings (2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(367)

Sety's Borrowed Coffin with Dr. Peter Lacovara

The coffin of Sety I (now in the NMEC) was probably reworked from an earlier piece, during the reburials in DB320 (the royal cache). But how can we tell? Dr. Peter Lacovara explains. Dr. Lacovara's w...

11 Apr 202512min

205: Sety I The Finest Tomb

Sety’s royal burial. Valley of the Kings tomb 17 (KV17) came to light in October 1817. Discovered by a team of Egyptian workers, employed by Giovanni Belzoni, the tomb is the most beautiful, and one o...

4 Apr 20251h 33min

Thutmose III & Hatshepsut: The New Kingdom Defined with Prof. Aidan Dodson

The new royal tomb, and how two 18th Dynasty rulers defined the "New Kingdom" as we know it. Prof. Aidan Dodson is a dedicated and prolific scholar, whose research covers many facets of ancient Egypti...

29 Mar 20251h 30min

Scan Technology Reveals Hidden Chambers at Giza?

Approach with caution. In March 2025, a group calling itself the “Khafre Research Project” posted visual information online about the pyramid of Khafra at Giza. The group claims that Synthetic Apertur...

22 Mar 202510min

Egyptology News: Another Royal Tomb (at Abydos)!

News from the Field (2025) Part 2. The past excavation season has been extraordinarily productive. Beyond the new royal tomb of Thutmose II we also have a SECOND royal tomb, at Abydos! The Grand Egypt...

20 Mar 202536min

204: Sety's Last Journey

After a reign of approximately eleven years, the Horus Men-Ma’at-Ra (Sety I) passed to the west. He died in reasonably good health, and studies of his mummy reveal a tall, physically robust individual...

13 Mar 202539min

Egyptology News: The Tomb of Thutmose II Discovered, with Dr. Chris Naunton

News from the Field 2025, Part 1. In February 2025, the breaking news was the discovery of a royal tomb. An archaeological mission working in Luxor are confident they have located the grave of King Th...

28 Feb 202541min

203: Rise of a Vizier

Paser, servant of Sety I and Ramesses II (c.1300--1270 BCE). In the later years of his reign, King Sety promoted one of his servants to the highest political/government office. Paser, the Vizier, ente...

21 Feb 202526min