The Silver Pharaohs

The Ancients

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Silver Pharaohs refers to a lesser-known set of ancient Egyptian rulers of the 21st Dynasty, named for the abundant silver discovered in their tombs.

First excavated in 1939 by Prof Pierre Montet, the tombs were filled with fantastic solid silver death masks and elaborate chambers, on par with the likes of Tutankhamun. Despite this, they've failed to garner the same amount of attention.

Today, Tristan is joined by Egyptologist and friend of the podcast Dr Chris Naunton to highlight the significance of these findings, what they can tell us about the rulers Psusennes I and Shoshenq II, how they paint a vivid picture of this important period of history.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's episode well it's all about a
0:15.1	pretty mysterious set of ancient Egyptian rulers nicknamed the Silver Pharaohs the 21st
0:21.8	dynasty we've all heard the name Tooten Carmen, the golden Pharaoh with his amazing
0:26.8	death mask, but what about Shoshank the second who was buried in an elaborate falcon-headed
0:32.2	silver coffin or Succanes the first who had his own great gold
0:36.7	death mask. These incredibly rich 21st dynasty rulers are often overlooked, but they have an amazing story.
0:45.0	And a good friend of the podcast, the renowned Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton,
0:50.0	he's back on the show today to explain all about the Silver Pharaohs.
0:54.7	I really do hope you enjoy.
0:56.9	And here's Chris. Chris wonderful to have you back on the podcast always great to have you on
1:08.0	thank you for having me again it's always great to be here and for for today's topic, the Silver Ferros, now the discovery of these
1:17.1	ferros always seems to be overshadowed by Tittin Carmen and I must admit I didn't know much about
1:22.4	them until starting to research for this episode.
1:24.8	But they're amazing. The treasures are almost as amazing as those of Tutin Karmoon.
1:29.4	You're exactly right, yeah. I mean, Tutung-Kamun is of course the great exemplar of the golden
1:40.0	Pharaoh gives us the great, the great archaeological discovery.
1:45.0	He does tend to overshadow other kings, other discoveries, other gold,
1:51.0	or other precious materials, other very fine funerary materials.
1:56.0	And if there's a kind of leading competitor, if you like,
2:01.0	in terms of sensational discovery, the revelation of a great horde of
2:05.8	treasure. It's the story of this group of kings that we've come to refer to as
2:10.9	the silver fairies, to distinguish them I think really from King Tut. We will delve into these
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