Dr. Campbell Price

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

And if you stop building the tomb, you're compromising the full deification of the king.

Indeed.

So you can go and visit the tomb of Ramesses III at the Valley of the Kings now.

It's been known since the very early days of Egyptology, what we might call Egyptology.

So, you know,

the 1700s so it's been exposed for a long time and it's a big thing so it would take a lot of effort to build so you can just imagine walking through it at some point the sculptors and the masons downed their tools and said nope not doing it so that's a very brave thing to do radical yeah imagine

What exactly is it?

Well, you're right.

This is probably the defining moment of Ramesses III's life is his ultimate leaving of it.

So the word harem is problematic in Egyptology because as so often the terminology we use is,

is not based necessarily on the terms the ancient Egyptians might have used.

And it's got this rather unintended and unfortunate association with Ottoman Turkish culture, where women are locked away.

And I don't think the ancient Egyptian court, let's call it that, the court was quite like that.

We have other evidence for...

slightly earlier than Ramses III, of women in the north of Egypt in a very good agricultural area, the Fayyum, basically managing a major textile business.

So it flips any idea of these women are sealed away and they're not allowed to talk to anyone and they're attended by eunuchs.

Actually, they're running a...

Pretty impressive, if not industrial, certainly, production centre.

Anyway, so it's more complicated than the women of the harem are being locked away.

But you're right, there's a domestic...

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