161: Horus Takes the Crown

The Coronation of King Hor-em-heb. A few months after he took power, Egypt's new pharaoh Horemheb ("Horus in Celebration") celebrated his rule. It was a magnificent party... 

Episode details:

• Date: c.1330 BCE.
• Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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• Logo: Horemheb's royal names, from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. MMA.
• Music interludes by Luke Chaos twitter.com/luke_chaos.

Select Bibliography:

• K. M. Bryson, ‘The Reign of Horemheb: History, Historiography, and the Dawn of the Ramesside Era’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2018).
• Gardiner, ‘The Coronation of King Ḥaremḥab’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39 (1953), 13–31.
• W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

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