Episode 84b: Into the Tomb
Interlude: Remarkable Discoveries in a Royal Tomb. Around 1440 BCE, Egyptians were carving the burial monument of Amunhotep II in the Valley of the Kings. In 1898 CE, a group…
Episode 84: The Bald Falcon
Amunhotep II (Part 6). Around 1420 BCE, Amunhotep II was entering his last days on the throne. The King was in his early forties, and beginning to feel his age.…
Episode 83: The Brat Pack
Amunhotep II (Part 5) 1460 - 1455 BCE. After the brilliant campaign of regnal year 33, Thutmose enjoyed a period of peace and plenty. Foreign powers began to seek relations…
Episode 82: That Which is in the Underworld
The Book of the Hidden Chamber (Amduat)In the mid-18th Dynasty (c.1430 BCE), pharaohs were decorating their tombs with a beautiful and intricate set of religious images. These texts/scenes comprised the…
Episode 81: The Book of the Dead
The Architect Kha and his Book of Going Forth by Day In the days of Amunhotep II (c.1420 BCE), a royal architect named Kha commissioned a funerary text for his…
Episode 80: Servant of Great Gods
Amunhotep II (Part 4): Worshiping the SphinxBefore he became King, Amunhotep II made a promise to revitalize worship at the Giza necropolis. Once Pharaoh, he fulfilled that promise in spectacular…
Episode 79: Let My People Go
Amunhotep II (Part 3): the Origins of the Exodus.1435 BCE was a landmark year. Leading two campaigns, in regnal years seven and nine, Amunhotep II institutes a new policy of…
Episode 78: The Duties of the Vizier
Amunhotep II (Part 2): The Pharaoh's Servant. The Vizier Rekh-mi-Re was a powerful and influential man. Serving Thutmose III, and then Amunhotep II, Rekhmire was the mayor of Thebes, and…
