Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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The one thing that he lacks is an heir, a male heir.
Right.
And this is, again, some responsible thinking for any ruler.
If you don't have an heir, you don't have a spare, you don't have a male descendant, blood descendant, you have to make plans to make it absolutely clear who is going to be the next king because you could drop dead at any moment.
Yes, adoption is a social practice in Egypt.
It's an important social practice.
So at that level, I mean, it's relatively unusual that kings who have many wives don't somehow manage to produce a male heir.
But Horemheb, for whatever reason, doesn't.
have surviving sons.
So he adopts, for want of a better term, this chap, Pa Ramesu, who is the vizier, the chati, the kind of chief minister, but also has a military background.
And we know a bit about him, his background, his father, Seti, based in the eastern Nile Delta, so the family hometown is known about.
And so he has the great advantage of having a living son and probably a living grandson.
So there is a line ready.
So maybe these guys are just mates, they're just friends from the battlefield, but maybe there are other strategic, social, political reasons.
You could expect that if you didn't have a connection, you'd want there to be a connection by marrying a random princess of royal blood.
That was quite effective.
And it tended to be the blue-blooded women who really made the king, who really confirmed the legitimacy of the line.
Yes, and what Egyptologists call the Ramesside Age, because he is, as king, when he becomes king, for a short time, for a couple of years, he takes the name Ramesses and he becomes Ramesses I. He's Ramesses I, because we always hear about Ramesses II, don't we?
It's short-lived.
He has ambition.
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