Dr. Campbell Price

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Most Famous Murder In Ancient Egypt · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

in the palace, and by palace we can almost pinpoint this.

When I'm talking about this history, you've got to imagine, as is probably quite easy for a historian, these kinds of things must have happened a lot.

We only get an insight into some of them where there's documentation.

Usually in ancient Egypt, there is no documentation.

There's a handful of other people where it looks like an assassination.

it becomes quite common in the Ptolemaic period where the Ptolemies are just backstabbing bloodthirsty

People are kind of more aware of that, right?

Because there are historians recording it.

Yes.

There's not a tradition of that usually.

What we have for Ramesses III, and it is an absolutely astonishing survival of a historical document, there is a list of perpetrators in this harem conspiracy, although let's drop the word harem,

this attempt on the king's life for modern antiquities dealers it was such a big piece of papyrus they cut it into different bits and sold it to different people but now we know based on the handwriting and the context and the contents we know that it's one document

And this is, it's not really court proceedings, we do occasionally get court proceedings a bit later in Egyptian history, but this is a list of the culprits and what happens to them.

No, not really.

So the queen, there's no word for queen, is king's great wife.

So there tends to be only one queen.

great king's wife at any one time.

And she is the top wife, so she would be called the queen.

So this is not the queen, it's a secondary wife.

Oh, that's a good question.

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