Dr. Campbell Price
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4 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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And so the westernmost part
like 200 kilometres west of the westernmost branch of the Nile at the time, is a site called Zawiet Amalrakam.
It's a site I've worked at myself as a student.
Very impressive.
We know about the garrison commander.
Was that Professor Stephen Snipes?
That's his excavation.
Yes, Stephen Snipes, Liverpool University Excavations.
uncovered really interesting evidence of kind of local interactions like the local population interacting with the fortress but also prepared in case there was a major influx of libyans from the west and they were right to be suspicious because that's what happens in the reign of ramsay's son which is so interesting that kind of foresight there and but of course you've also got
Yeah, I mean, these have been established probably since the Old Kingdom, but big fortresses built in the Middle Kingdom.
And then we know, yeah, Timur was the first, Timur was the third, really pushed the boundaries there.
So I think it's fair to say there's more general success in beating up the Nubians than there is controlling these people in the Levant.
But...
It doesn't really matter to the ancient Egyptians.
Anyone who's not an ancient Egyptian is to be pitied or despised and to be crushed under the pharaoh's sandals.
So that is how they are depicted in art and that is how they are presented to the gods and that is how the universe works.
The name, yeah, the house of Rameses, it's an apt metaphor.
for not just the physical residence of a whole line of kings, but also for the house, the actual dynasty that continues, of course, for many generations.
Yes, and the peace treaty maybe marks something of a pause, and then he really focuses on building.
But he's been building for some time.
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