217: The Art of Kadesh (Livestream)

The History of Egypt

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Our final part of the Kadesh story is Ramesses' art. Wall carvings, on major temples, present the pharaohs' summary of Kadesh and the conflict. They include many fun details, including enemy combatants, and comparing some scenes with artefacts allows us to imagine aspects of the ancient battle. Video version available here and on my YouTube channel (under "Live") https://www.youtube.com/@dominicperryae Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark, and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout
0:21.8	history. Go to Explorespodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app. That's the Explorers
0:28.0	podcast. Howdy folks? Dominic here. This episode is a live stream recording about the art of
0:36.3	Kadesh, discussing the temple scenes that
0:39.0	Ramesses commissioned to record this conflict.
0:42.5	It is our final episode about the battle, which makes up such a prominent part of Ramsey's
0:48.3	communication and propaganda, quote unquote, during the early part of his reign.
0:53.9	In this presentation, I cover a lot of material that I wasn't able to include in the narrative,
1:00.0	including many of the fun details that appear in the temple scenes, and how they match up with
1:05.0	archaeological material about weapons and military technology.
1:10.0	Obviously, an audio podcast is not the best way to experience this, but I've included it
1:15.2	here for completeness.
1:17.1	If you want to see the full video presentation, that is now available on my YouTube channel.
1:22.3	Just follow the link in the episode's description.
1:25.4	Thanks for listening or watching, and I hope you enjoy. this you're basically familiar with the story of Kadesh or at the very least that you've
1:45.0	listened to my podcast episode on the history of Egypt. It was number 214 about Kadesh. I am going
1:52.2	to recover the basic gist of the battle. But in terms of the hieroglyph texts, you know,
1:59.0	Ramesses's narrative of what is happening.
2:01.9	I'm going to leave most of that in the podcast and today we're really going to focus on the
2:06.1	visual side of things, which obviously I can't do in the audio version.
2:11.7	Classic image by an artist in the early 1900s about Remises in battle with his pet lion who's down here in the
2:19.9	center. I think Remusseus would have loved this kind of image of himself, which is why I included
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