69: When Pharaohs Met Minoans

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Foreign Lands, Foreign Peoples. We take a break from the reign of Thutmose III to meet some of Egypt's neighbours. The people of Crete (Keftiu), Cyprus (Alashiya), and Byblos (Kupna / Gubla) made significant contributions to their world. We meet some of them. Oh, and there's a goofy poem at the end... Date. 1465 BCE. 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: Donald B. Redford, The Wars in Syria and Palestine of Thutmose III, 2003. Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times, 1992. Yannis Galanakis, The Aegean World: A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, 2013. Richard A. Gabriel, Thutmose III: A Military Biography, 2009. Shelley Wachsmann, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant, 2008 (Google Books). Eric H. Cline & David O’Connor, Thutmose III: A New Biography, 2006. H.R. Hall, “Keftiu and the Peoples of the Sea,” 1902 (JSTOR). J.B. Pritchard, “Syrians as Pictured in the Paintings of the Theban Tombs,” 1951 (JSTOR). M.H. Wiener, “Neo-Palatial Knossos: Rule and Role,” 2007 (malcolmweiner.net – ignore Google Warning, false flag). R. van Dijk, “Bull-Leaping in the Ancient Near East,” 2013 (Academia.edu). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast, episode 69, North by Northwest.
0:26.1	Today's episode is a journey on sea and land, around the Mediterranean and into ancient Syria.
0:32.7	We are going outside the Egyptian Empire to meet the peoples and places that bordered the imperial realm.
0:39.1	It's an experimental episode, a history of Egypt episode that's not really about the Egyptians.
0:45.3	Part travelogue, part geography, all fascinating.
0:49.3	You and I are going deep into the realm of the foreigners.
0:52.3	We'll meet strange gods, international traders, and all the peoples
0:56.1	on the northern edges of Tatmos I's
0:57.8	3rd's imperial dominion.
0:59.9	This episode is brought to you by Daniel
1:01.8	McGlinchy, Jerome Bussman,
1:03.8	and Margaret Hicks, in gratitude for their
1:05.8	financial support. Many thanks,
1:07.8	folks. We couldn't do it without you.
1:10.5	And now, on with the show. We begin our journey in Egypt's northern territories.
1:35.3	We are in the Nile Delta amid the narrow waterways, marshes and papyrus thickets.
1:41.3	The water moves slowly here as it trickles into a thousand times a thousand streams
1:46.3	and bayous, making their leisurely journey northward towards the coast. Down there, the Nile will
1:52.3	flow out into the Mediterranean Sea and in to different lands. Pretty soon, we'll join them. But first,
1:59.0	a small detour. Before we can go out into the open ocean,
2:03.0	we have to stop for supplies and to acquire a good sea-going ship. So we head further north
2:08.6	towards a bustling energetic port, one of the great centres of life in the 18th Dynasty Delta.
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