Dr. Campbell Price

And it's the first historic mention of the people of Israel.

Israel as a people, isn't it?

As a people.

So historically, very, very interesting.

But also Mehmet Agha goes around.

Again, you get the sense, maybe reading a little bit between the lines, that he thinks he doesn't have long because he's quite old already.

And he does rule for almost 10 years.

So, you know, he does okay.

And he puts his name on wherever there is an empty space because he doesn't have the time to commission new monuments.

He just whaps his name on, whether it's statues of older kings, whether it's columns.

We have an example in Manchester Museum where it's an old or middle kingdom column of granite.

Ramesses II has his name and image worshipping a god on it.

And then Meron Patar has had his name added as well.

So there's this sense of, you know, yeah, fighting against time.

But I think the real success of Men in Bataan, it's a shame he's not better known, is that he actively manages to campaign quite actively against powers from the East and the West and the South.

With time, the dynasty, there's lots of internal struggles for a few generations.

But then by the time of Ramesses III, you get active incursions

You get the Sea Peoples, this kind of motley crew of people from the Mediterranean.

You get the Libyans actively coming over and being quite threatening.

And all of this seems to be held at bay by Mehret Batar.