142: Wars in the North

Egypt on the offensive. King Tutankhamun's government had to deal with major threats in the north. Instability and regional warfare had spread through Syria and Canaan. To tackle these, pharaoh despatched his most prominent general. Horemheb, representative of the King, led the soldiers of Egypt into battle...

• Date c.1340 BCE
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Select Bibliography:

•  Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, Cairo, 2017).
• Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
• Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon (Paris, 1998).
• Gabolde, Toutankhamon (Les Grands Pharaons; Paris, 2015).
• R. Johnson, ‘Tutankhamun’s Life, Death, and Afterlife: New Evidence from Thebes’, November 6th, 2020. https://youtu.be/JuHCL88qpFw
• Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
• T. Martin, The Memphite Tomb of Ḥoremḥeb, Commander-in-Chief of Tutʻankhamūn, 1 (London, 1989).
• T. Martin, The Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries From the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great (London, 1991).
• J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

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