166: Horemheb's Restoration (and Usurpation)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Horemheb vs Ay, Tutankhamun, and others. Everyone talks about Horemheb "erasing" Akhenaten. But the King demolished monuments of several rulers, and erased the names of others. What does it all mean? Episode details: Date: c. 1327 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music intro: Luke Chaos. Music interludes: Luke Chaos. Music outro: Keith Zizza. Select Bibliography: M. Azim, ‘La structure des pylônes d’Horemheb à Karnak’, Cahiers de Karnak VII (1982), 127—166. E. Blyth, Karnak: Evolution of a Temple (2006). P. Brand, ‘Secondary Restorations in the Post-Amarna Period’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 36 (1999), 113–34. L. Cotelle-Michel, ‘Présentation préliminaire des blocs de la Chapelle de Sésostris Ier découverte dans le IXe Pylône de Karnak’, Cahiers de Karnak XI. A. Dodson, Amarna Sunrise: Egypt From Golden Age to Age of Heresy (2014). A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, 2017). C. Manassa Darnell, ‘Transition 18th—19th Dynasty’, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (2015). W. J. Murnane, ‘Tutankhamun on the Eighth Pylon at Karnak’, Varia Aegyptiaca I (1985), 59—68. R. Saad, ‘Fragments d’un monument de Toutânkhamon retrouvés dans le IXe pylône de Karnak’, Cahiers de Karnak V (1975), 93—109. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temples of Karnak (1999). E. Sullivan, ‘Karnak: Development of the Temple of Amun-Ra’, in W. Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (2010). C. Traunecker, ‘Rapport préliminaire sur la chapelle de Sésostris Ier découverte dans le IXe pylône’, Cahiers de Karnak VII (1982), 121—126. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Civil War and Reconstruction was a pivotal era in American history.
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0:40.0	My dear listener.
0:42.0	You asked me once if I had told you all there was to know about Horumheb and Amarna.
0:48.0	And while I can honestly say I have told you the truth, I may not have told you all of it.
0:54.0	I am old now Frodo. I mean, listener.
0:58.0	I'm not the same historian I once was.
1:01.0	I think it is time I told you what really happened.
1:05.0	It began. Well, it began as you might expect.
1:10.0	In a temple in Egypt, there came a Pharaoh.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome back to the history of Egypt podcast Episode 166.
1:30.0	Restoration 3. Re-restoring.
1:34.0	Today, we explore the other half of Horumheb's relationship with the Amarna rulers.
1:40.0	Last time, we saw the Pharaoh deconstruct the monuments of Arcanaten.
1:45.0	His builders took down shrines established by that Pharaoh at Karnak,
1:50.0	and they used the bricks for Horumheb's great pylons.
1:54.0	That is an important story, but it's not the whole story.
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