Dr. Campbell Price
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His son Amenhotep II, yeah, pretty good.
By the reign of Amenhotep III, you do get the impression that he's just sat down, just enjoying being luxurious because his forefathers have done it for him.
He is not really going out doing battle.
And then maybe the decadence sets in.
And so his son...
is Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten.
And he is an unapologetic weirdo for an ancient Egyptian king.
He kind of rips up the rulebook to an extent.
And then much is made, although I'm not sure how plausible I find this, much is made of the fact that we have an archive from the reign of Akhenaten and the end of the reign of Amenhotep III that talks about
foreign diplomatic exchange so you have a sense of again we're using modern terms which I probably don't apply a foreign office which basically has cuneiform the so-called Amarna letters that talk about you know please my brother because they're all calling the kings of the this brotherhood of kings yes of the Levant of the Bronze Age that part of the world they are asking you know for the Egyptian king to send gold because gold is as plentiful as sand and
Send me a real gold statue, a solid gold statue, not just a plated gold statue.
Send me chariots, send me all the nice stuff.
But there is a sense in which, and it may be typical, we don't have the other side of the dialogue, but there is a sense that the Egyptian king Akhenaten is maybe not doing as much as he could to maintain Egyptian imperial possessions.
And that is important because there does seem to be a lull
an Egyptian foreign influence in the Levant.
And it is that, ultimately, that the dynasty of Ramses II seeks to re-establish.
Well, we're so dependent on official proclamations, which are given a flavour, shall we say, if we're being positivist, that give some kind of flavour, but they don't recount the detail anything like the way a historian would want today.
But you're right that those cuneiform tablets, the Amarna letters, offer a really fascinating insight because these are
one-on-one discussions this is the queen of egypt writes or the king of egypt writes to their opposite number so you you get a sense of the geopolitics of the time but it's shrouded in decorum what is appropriate to say in certain contexts and we only really have one side of the of the discussion
Yeah.
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