Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So if your tomb is in the bottom of the valley, as Tutankhamun's was, it was covered over.
Other kings build higher up on the hills and the chippings from the tomb cover Tutankhamun's sepulchre.
And then Tutankhamun, perhaps a benefit of his having been officially forgotten was that he was struck off lists.
So if people were going around trying to find tombs, they wouldn't find him.
Difficult to know exactly how prosperity trickled down the social pyramid.
But as far as stability of government goes, if you judge the prosperity of a country by the stability of the royal house, things do markedly improve.
Because Horemheb makes plans, although he doesn't have children of his own that we know of to inherit, he makes plans for a military colleague, Paramesu, who changes his name a bit to become Ramesses I. And Ramesses I is a living son, Seti, and probably a living grandson, who becomes Ramesses II.
So Horemheb has the foresight, after a fairly successful reign of his own, to set up the next dynasty, Dynasty 19.
And they, again, are military colleagues, aren't they?
They're generals.
Yes.
Yeah, they're in the military together.
And the military and the administration at that period are pretty close, and the religious hierarchy are pretty close.
So things are stable, strong and stable, you could say.
Yeah, I think we've covered the prelude to greatness, you know, being on the shoulders of giants, because I think Ramesses II owes a lot to his father and to his grandfather.
But Kadesh is undoubtedly a turning point because, as you said, he's going back and trying to win some grudge matches.
doesn't succeed in real terms doesn't succeed with an outright victory but is able to spin the story and again i'm very skeptical of using a modern term like propaganda so when you see the walls of temples where rameses ii
is talking about Kadesh, the fact that he writes that, not he himself, but he commissions that to be carved on the temple wall makes it so.
It seems strange to a modern point of view, but that is in some ways maybe anticipating a victory that he thinks maybe he will have in actuality in the future.
But that doesn't really matter.
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