Dr. Campbell Price
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4 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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He's in charge of the recruits.
And the recruits are guys who can equally be sent on a campaign to beat people up as they can be sent to a quarry, as they can be sent to a mine.
So you're in charge not just of...
you know, military personnel, but you're in charge of people.
And so he's unusual.
Horem hep is unusual because we've got statues of him where he's very proudly writing things down as a scribe.
So don't think of him as a kind of meathead guy who's just a bit of a brute.
I think he's
intelligent he's clearly someone who understands the workings of the state and who is proud of his ability as an administrator so he really is an all-rounder and so when the throne eventually passes to him you know he's he's in charge for almost a couple of decades
He has a long reign.
So he's, again, holding the reins of power.
And he is the one who really goes back and tries to scrub out evidence of Akhenaten or begins that process.
Yeah, I mean, it sounds dramatic, but I don't think you're far from the truth.
And so he instigates what is essentially a military coup.
So compared to earlier periods, say the Middle Kingdom, you know, a few hundred years before,
when we know there are military raids going on down into Nubia, up into the Levant, it seems that to raise an army, you basically go around and say, come on, chaps, who wants to fight?
Whereas by the end of the 18th dynasty, there was a professionalization.
So you will say, I'm a charioteer.
My father was a charioteer.
So there must be, I hesitate to say a military class, but there are a group of people who's
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