30: Smooth Sailing on the Red Sea

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Montuhotep III: A short but successful reign. This new king only ruled a few years but he achieved some noteworthy things, including a return to Punt... Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com. Select Bibliography: Pierre Tallet, “Ayn Sukhna and Wadi al-Jarf: Two Newly Discovered Pharaonic Harbours on the Suez Gulf,” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan, 2012. Dorothea Arnold, “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 1991. Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006. Nicolas Grimal, A History of Egypt, 1994. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's something you learned in history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth?
0:05.0	Better yet, what's something you didn't learn at all that was omitted completely?
0:09.0	That's what I like to call Redacted History.
0:12.0	My name is Andre White, the host of the Redacted History
0:15.6	Podcast, the place where history's forgotten events, heroes, and villains get their story
0:20.9	told, one episode at a time the redacted history podcast real history
0:26.6	never dies Stream the redacted history podcast on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever else you get your podcast. Welcome back to the Egyptian history podcast, episode 30, smooth sailing on the Red Sea. The year was approximately 2009 B.C. and the great
0:57.1	ruler, Montu Hotepe the second was dead. After reuniting the two lands, this legendary king had finally passed into the field of Reed's and become Osiris.
1:09.0	It fell to his son, already a grown man, to lead the country and uphold the legacy of the re-established
1:17.3	divine kingship.
1:19.2	Over a short but accomplished reign, this king would enrich the legacy of his household by
1:25.6	commissioning temples and for the first time in nearly 200 years successfully
1:32.2	sending an Egyptian expedition to Punt.
1:35.0	Monte Hautep III should be known primarily by his throne name,
1:40.0	Sunk-Kah Ray, which translates, causing the car of Ray to live.
1:46.0	Sank-Kahre, Montu Hoteb, Sank Tawi-F, to give him his full name, would rule for a good 12 years. This was a short but respectable length
1:57.0	of time given the average lifespan of ancient humans, and Montu Hoteep the third used that period to accomplish several noteworthy things.
2:07.0	A magnificent program of monumental construction was initiated up and down the Nile Valley, expanding and decorating cult centers.
2:17.0	In several communities such as Abidos, Alefantin and Armand, were a large temple to the war god, Montu, was enriched with new decorations of the king.
2:28.8	The temples themselves were not grandiose monuments, but respectable constructions nonetheless.
2:35.0	Elegant decorations show sophisticated and expert carving
2:39.0	some of the more beautiful work of the 11th dynasty.
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