Crime Scene Invetigation.
Around 1600 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 tied him up and executed him. The full circumstances of this event are coming to light with new research. Today, we dig into recent studies on the event and its larger context…
- Date: c.1600 BCE
- Read the new study of Seqenenre’s mummy at Frontiers in Medicine https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2021.637527
- View the Mummy of Seqenenre Ta’a at Wikimedia and in Saleem and Hawass (2021).
- View artefacts of the Hyksos period at Wikimedia.
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Bibliography
- Manfred Bietak, “The Egyptian Community in Avaris During the Hyksos Period,” Egypt and the Levant 26 (2016), 263–74.
- Manfred Bietak, “The Many Ethnicities of Avaris,” in J. Budka and J. Auenmüller (eds), From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia (2018): 73–92.
- Andrew Curry, “The Rulers of Foreign Lands,” Archaeology 71 (2018), 28–33.
- Aidan Dodson and Salima Ikram, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt (1998).
- Uroš Matić, Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt (2019).
- Sahar N. Saleem and Zahi Hawass, ‘Computed Tomography Study of the Mummy of King Seqenenre Taa II: New Insights Into His Violent Death’, Frontiers in Medicine 8 (2021), 1–10. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2021.637527
- Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptian Mummies (1991 Edition).
Follow up to my previous comment:
For those interesested – the symphonic work accompanying the Golden Parade included vocal parts in ancient Egyptian.
Thank you for the 18th dynasty podcasts.
I have just came to an end and listened to the day before only to learn of the Golden Parade in Cairo today (3 April 2021) in which the mummies of 22 pharaos and pharaonesses and royal consorts were moved to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in Fustat, Cairo. Among them was Amenhotep III and queen Tiye : ).
And even the mummy of guess who… – Seqenenre. Such a marvellous coincidence. It seems the world’s eyes are on Ancient Egypt these days : )
The comment that the king remained in rigor mortis and this is why the arms are positioned in a way that shows they were bound behind his back does not make sense. Rigor is not a permanent condition and if the body was beginning to decompose when mummified then rigor would have passed. So the significance of the position of the arms can not be attributed to this effect. Unless there is other evidence, this would cast doubt that we know his arms were bound behind his back at the execution.
Fair point! If I do a remaster on this episode in future, I will investigate further 🙂