75: Thutmose Triumphant (The Erasure of Hatshepsut) Updated 2025

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Thutmose III (Part 9): Home and Propaganda. From 1455-1450 BCE, Thutmose spent much of his time involved in domestic affairs. Unfortunately, this involved some very harsh policies towards his immediate predecessor... Update (2023): Thutmose III probably reburied some of his immediate successors. In 2023, archaeologists may have found a tomb associated with one of these rulers. More information in the episode "News from the Field (2023 Review)" and on the website. Update (2025): In 2025, researcher Jun Yi Wong published a study of Hatshepsut's statues. Wong argues that many of the "destroyed" statues may have been dismantled as part of a ritual deactivation, rather than erasure of the Queen-King specifically. This is an ongoing study project and the results may take time to incorporate into the larger historical picture. Read the article in Open Access: Wong, J. Y. (2025). The afterlife of Hatshepsut’s statuary. Antiquity, 99(405), 746--761. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.64 Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Select Bibliography: Eric H. Cline and David O’Connor (eds.), Thutmose III: A New Biography, 2006. Sue D’Auria, “The Princess Baketamun,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 69 (1983) (JSTOR). Vanessa Davies, “Hatshepsut’s Use of Thutmosis III in Her Program of Legitimation,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004) (JSTOR). Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004. Aidan Dodson, “Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the Eighteenth Dynasty,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 76 (199) (JSTOR). Aidan Dodson, “Thutmosis III: Family Man,” The Ostracon: The Journal of the Egyptian Study Society 15, 2004. Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1992. Dimitri Laboury, “Portrait versus Ideal Image” – UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (Website). Dimitri Laboury, “Royal Portrait and Ideology: Evolution and Signification of the Statuary of Thutmose III,” Thutmose III: A New Biography, 2006 (Academia.edu). H. E. Winlock, “Notes on the Reburial of Thutmosis I,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 15 (1929) (JSTOR). Scott Woodward, “Geneaology of New Kingdom Pharaohs and Queens,” Archaeology 49 (1996) (JSTOR). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:48.7	episode 75 Tutmo's Triumphant.
1:52.8	This is the ninth episode in our story of the life and times of Tutmo's the 3rd, King of Egypt.
1:59.4	Today it is a big one.
2:01.3	We're going to explore the family, home life and personality,
2:04.8	artistic propaganda and domestic policies of the legendary ruler of the Nile Valley.
2:10.8	As with all of our longer episodes, this one is designed to be consumed in two or three
2:16.2	settings. So feel free to pause at the various musical interludes and resume it at a later time.
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