Battlefield Mummy: The Brutal Death of Seqenenre Ta'a

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Around 1560 BCE the King of Southern Egypt, Seqen-en-re Ta’a died. His end was violent and bloody. The king was a victim of (anonymous) foes, who tied him up and executed him. The full circumstances of this event are coming to light with new research. Today, we dig into recent studies on the event and its larger context… 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, Music by Ancient Lyric www.bettinajoydeguzman.com. Select Bibliography: Manfred Bietak, “The Egyptian Community in Avaris During the Hyksos Period,” Egypt and the Levant 26 (2016), 263–74. Manfred Bietak, “The Many Ethnicities of Avaris,” in J. Budka and J. Auenmüller (eds), From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia (2018): 73–92. Andrew Curry, “The Rulers of Foreign Lands,” Archaeology 71 (2018), 28–33. Aidan Dodson and Salima Ikram, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt (1998). Uroš Matić, Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt (2019). Sahar N. Saleem and Zahi Hawass, ‘Computed Tomography Study of the Mummy of King Seqenenre Taa II: New Insights Into His Violent Death’, Frontiers in Medicine 8 (2021), 1–10. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2021.637527 Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptian Mummies (1991 Edition). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.7	Three and a half thousand years ago, a man knelt in the dirt. He was exhausted, battered, and bruised.
0:59.9	His arms were stretched behind his back, his wrists were tied. He may have worn body armour,
1:06.3	or even jewellery, for this man was wealthy. He was a king. His name was Sekhinenre.
1:14.5	Sakenenri Tha, aka Sakenenrae the Great or Brave, was the king of southern Egypt. He ruled at
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1:29.2	Sakenan-Rae-Tha did not rule all of Egypt. The Nile Valley was divided. In fact, it was this
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