Tristan Hughes

Well, the Bronze Age world stage does diminish and the other powers like the Hittites does grow at that time.

It doesn't end well for Akhenaten, does it?

I know, this is another episode in the same ride, isn't it?

Okay, then.

This is almost a bit of economic self-destruction at the same time.

So alarm bells are ringing, feels a bit of a tumultuous time inside Egypt and beyond for Egyptian influence.

So what follows him?

I mean, how do we get to these last big figures in the 18th dynasty?

And I guess this gradual decline that follows.

Like military advisors at court kind of thing or actual active commanders in the field?

And he is a military usurper.

So the fact that then he has a success... Oh, you took a big breath there.

Yes, yes.

Yes.

And the state of the army at that time, because I can imagine almost Horeb, if he staged this coup, then he needs substantial support amongst the army itself.

Do we know much about what the army looked like at this time?

Is it split around the place?

Is it professional?

What should we be imagining?

He's the one who probably has the respect more of the actual soldiers on the ground.