What's something you learned in history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth?

Better yet, what's something you didn't learn at all that was omitted completely?

That's what I like to call Redacted History.

My name is Andre White, the host of the Redacted History

Podcast, the place where history's forgotten events, heroes, and villains get their story

told, one episode at a time the redacted history podcast real history

never dies Stream the redacted history podcast on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever else you get your podcast. Hello and welcome back to the Egyptian history podcast, episode 35, from father to son. In which Sinusaret

the first, second king of the 12th dynasty, begins to rule on his own and ensure his father's legacy thanks to a

propagandistic document known as the teachings of a Menom Hart the first.

Senusaret's arrival in Ichtawi, the capital established by his father, probably occurred several days after the old

king had been violently set upon by his guards.

Either a Menom-heart was dead already, or he now lingered briefly, soon to pass on to the next world and become Osiris.

Time was of the essence, andusiret could not waste it.

The conventional view among Egyptologist today

holds that a night following a king's death was a time of chaos,

a no man's land between order and disorder.

The chaos lasted all night, at least on a theological level, in which time and reality hovered on the brink of unraveling.

Widespread mourning can be assumed to have occurred.

Whether a king was genuinely loved or not, his death threatened the existing reality.

But then, as the sun rose, a king was revealed, and Maat returned to her rightful place.

This was known as the appearing in glory or appearing as a God,

the two most common references to a king's ascension and continuous

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