Dr. Campbell Price

That inspired a piece of poetry.

We'll get to you in a bit later, yes, absolutely.

It's difficult to have a reliable index of, you know, GDP for ancient Egypt, or the equivalent, but...

Suffice it to say, I mean, he would have been the only king almost everyone had ever known.

So I think when he did eventually shuffle off this mortal coil, there would have been a lot of head scratching about how to actually do a pharaoh's funeral.

But you can tell that there are problems set up in store for his eventual successor, Mehmet Ata.

And he seems to have made a pretty good goal.

We have a kind of uptick then in evidence of foreign interactions and foreign policy because he has to deal with active political

Yeah, pressing issues from the West, from the Libyans, issues in the North, in the Levant, and then back down South, the Nubians.

Well, we've got quite a bit of historical information, almost like he makes an effort to put his stamp on history.

And again, older king coming to the throne, he maybe is in his 60s, if not 70 when he

So there's a sort of a Charles III thing there.

70, wow.

And maybe, well, exactly, he wasn't preparing to be the king throughout his whole life.

He had older brothers.

He clearly wants to...

record his own active engagement with these foreign powers.

So there are sources like the so-called Israel Stele.

So this is a reused monument of an earlier king of Amenhotep III, where the back of it is inscribed with various campaigns.

And there are lots of these things, actually, relatively speaking.