115b: Building Quickly

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Amarna (Part 4): Raising a City in Haste. When Akhenaten demanded a new royal residence (Akhet-Aten), it fell to countless labourers, overseers and donkeys to gather the material needed for the city. Archaeologists scouring the landscape of Akhet-Aten and its neighbourhood have found a great deal of evidence for stone quarrying, ancient road networks, and even the rudimentary concrete used to strengthen buildings... Date. c.1357 BCE King: Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re) Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten) Location: Amarna (Akhet-Aten) Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com, Episode Images and Bibliography at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Want to visit Egypt? Consider joining the History of Egypt Podcast Tour in January 2020! Spaces still available, more details at https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/19/tour-2-now-ready-for-booking/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast. This is a short side episode, Building Quickly.
0:18.0	Having seen how the Pharaoh of Egypt, Aikenaten,
0:22.0	established his new royal residence, the city of Omana.
0:25.8	It's worth looking at how that city itself was constructed.
0:29.7	Not the monuments or houses, but rather the building blocks, the materials that artisans and laborers
0:36.3	used to raise the mighty structures. Today, we take the 99% invisible route, examining things you may not think about, but which played a massive
0:46.4	role in shaping the city which Aachenaten and his people inhabited.
0:52.1	This episode is brought to you by Linda and Seymour, my priest-level
0:56.0	supporters on Patreon. Linda, Seymour, you rock. Thank you for your generosity. I hope this
1:02.2	small episode goes some way to paying my debt.
1:06.0	To everyone listening, thank you for joining me and on with the show. The year was 1357 B.C. E.
1:13.0	approximately.
1:14.0	Across the last was 1357 B.C.E. approximately.
1:24.3	Across the landscape of Amana or Aiket Aet Aet.
1:28.2	Horizon of the Aetin, thousands of workers toiled to construct a vast array of structures.
1:35.0	Temples, palaces, shrines, houses and workshops rose from the desert sands,
1:41.0	all shaped by the hands of laborers, stonemasons, foremen and overseers.
1:47.4	They worked quickly, perhaps urgently.
1:50.5	Pharaoh's demands were great and over the course of just a few years they accomplished a remarkable feat
1:56.7	raising a city where none had been before. How did they do this and how did they do it so quickly?
2:04.0	Last time we got introduced to a man named Hati
2:09.0	Hati held the title of Emirra Kaou or Overseer of the Works.
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