Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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ancestors have fought and done some pretty impressive things possibly in the 18th dynasty so yes I think there is a professionalization and maybe these people have been in the reign of Akhenaten possibly sitting around with nothing to do and you could imagine someone like Horemheb
organising these people in a charismatic figurehead right yeah and in Horem Hebs first because he has two tombs because he becomes a pharaoh and therefore takes a tomb in the Valley of the Kings down at Thebes but in his first tomb he's shown you know engaged in
things to do with military activity under Tutankhamun.
So we should understand that Tutankhamun is the nominal, the notional patron.
He's sending off the troops into battle, but it's Horemheb who's actually doing it and commanding them.
Yeah, so remember we're still in the Bronze Age, you're fighting with bronze metal weapons.
This is not the Iron Age yet in Egypt.
You are going into battle as a foot soldier with a shield, which is pretty important, a dagger or a sword and an axe.
So you're going to axe someone.
But you should also, I guess, remember that the chariot is still a fairly modern invention.
It's a couple of hundred years old.
And I think we think of ancient Egypt as always having used chariots, but they've come into Egypt from the north, maybe brought with the Hyksos in these wars of liberation.
And those are only, yeah, a couple of hundred years before.
So Horemheb,
has the connections, the elite military connections with other generals, that's important.
And then, as you say, he probably has the loyalty of the foot soldiers, the infantry.
Based on the evidence, always this caveat.
Based on the evidence that we have, of course, the ruler is honour bound to describe themselves as the best and God-given and doing everything very effectively.
They're not recording negative things.
But still, you do get the sense that Horemheb is an effective ruler.
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