67b: The Battle of Megiddo (A Dramatic Reading)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A royal drama. In this episode, we replay the "official account" of Thutmose III's great victory at Megiddo. Drawing on the King's own proclamations, and using the voices of some other podcasters, we bring the story to life... Date c.1473 BCE www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com, get early releases and ad-free episodes at www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast, dramatic readings provided by Elias Belhaddad (The History of Islam), Ben Jacobs (Wittenberg to Westphalia), Travis J Dow (History of Germany), Steve Guerra (History of the Papacy), Thomas Daly (American Biography), David Crowther (The History of England), Erik Fogg (ReConsider). Bibliography and Images at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.9	episode 67b the Battle of Magido, a Dramatic Reading.
1:04.0	Today's episode is, well, it's what you'd expect.
1:08.0	It's a Dramatic Reading of the Battle of Magido, as it was written by Tutmo's the third and his royal scribes.
1:15.0	The text in question comes from the walls of Karnak temple where Tutmo's ordered
1:20.0	that it be inscribed in order to immortalize and commemorate his victories.
1:24.6	As part of his larger dedication to the God Amun which took place at the temple, the
1:29.6	text was inscribed in living hieroglyphs and the plunder from this campaign was donated to was
1:34.2	donated to many of the plundered from this campaign was donated to many of the temple treasuries.
1:38.0	To help me bring this story to life, I have enlisted the help of several podcasters from the Agora Podcast Network.
1:45.0	I thank them all individually at the end.
1:47.6	They have given life to various characters that pop up in the story, characters like
1:51.8	the generals, the soldiers, and of course that hated enemy of
1:56.0	Kedesh who was causing Tutmo's the third so much trouble. In the interests of a disclaimer,
2:01.7	I should note that I gave my readers some liberal instructions.
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