72: The Home Front (Letters to Ahmose)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Interlude: Busy Lives at Thebes. Personal correspondence is an exciting find for Egyptologists. It's even more wonderful when the letters come together to form a cohesive group, all related to one person. Come meet Ahmose, a letter writer from ancient Egypt... Images and bibliography at https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/20/episode-72-the-home-front-letters-to-ahmose/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.4	Head on over. Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt Podcast.
1:24.0	Episode 72, The Home Front, also known as Letters to Ahmosa.
1:30.0	This episode is brought to you by Dennis Nardine, Martin Cordero and Logan Brown.
1:36.0	Thank you for your support folks and your appreciation of the show.
1:40.0	This one is for you. The events of this episode take place in the reign of Tutmoes the third with no specific date.
1:57.0	If you need a chronological point, they take place roughly around 1470 BCc.C.E. give or take. In the
2:15.0	mid 1800s, Egyptologists entered a tomb west of Luxor ancient Thebes.
2:21.0	In the gloom of the tomb tomb lit only by torches or oil lamps, the archaeologists found an object of great
2:28.6	value, a mummy.
2:30.8	The mummy itself was technically unremarkable, but the wrappings of the mummy were quite unusual.
2:37.0	You see, whoever had wrapped this mummy had cut a couple of corners in their work. Instead of using linen as was proper,
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