Melvyn Bragg
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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when we all want to know when do they know so we can know when she became Pharaoh.
Um we're talking fifteen hundred B C we talking about
The this woman pharaoh?
And when did when did people begin to say this is the Pharaoh?
And this was built when, this uh this Red Chapel.
So this would We know specifically when it was built, so we know with I know, not specifically.
Within Right, okay.
It may be coming over all your eyes.
Never mind.
Within a year or two we know uh two or three years.
But that is I w that is when she is known she says she is fair and she seizes public power.
And we'll stick to the architectural line for a moment, Kate Spence, because her mortuary uh temple, which is called Deer El Bari, is supposed to be evidence of her greatness as uh pushing into monumental buildings, architecture and establishing authority and as one of the things that she did.
She didn't turn her energies to military campaigns as far as we know.
But she did to monumental building and trade and diplomacy.
So let's kick off with monumental building.
She she she and she also restores and to a certain extent remodels Luxor and Karnak.
And so she's making uh uh presence felt in the way that you did in those days through monuments.
Uh
So we have this king uh coming in, this new pharaoh, and one way she establishes herself is to say, Look, I am a pharaoh in the Greek tradition and I am
making great buildings and monuments to show my power and who I am.
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