Campbell Price On The Women Who Assassinated A Pharaoh
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
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We often think of Egyptian Pharaohs as glamorous god-king of Ancient times, yet the truth of these people is a lot, lot darker.
Millenia ago, a plot was hatched within the highest echelons of Egyptian society which ended with royal blood being spilt. This assassination, known as the Harem Conspiracy, and the following trial would fascinate historians for the next three thousand years... Who was behind the plot? How close did they come to seizing the throne? And what can archaeology tell us about Egyptian society as a whole?
Our guest today is Dr. Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum and honorary research fellow at University of Liverpool. He’s our go-to Ancient Egypt expert and the author of his newest book ‘Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt.’
00:00 Introduction
02:34 Who was Ramesses III?
04:54 Egypt in the Late Bronze Age
05:49 The legacy of Ramesses the Great
08:51 Succession and uncertainty in ancient Egypt
10:15 The divine role of the pharaoh
12:32 The architectural legacy of Ramesses III
16:30 Socio-economic struggles and the first recorded strike
21:00 The truth behind the harem conspiracy
23:59 Motives of the queen and the rival heir
33:00 The court officials involved in the coup
35:16 Black magic and the physical assassination
36:58 CT scans and the physical evidence of murder
40:55 The judicial papyrus and punishments for regicide
48:44 Mummification, modern exploration, and cultural legacy
This episode was edited by Hannah Feodorov. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.
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"We don't need a Pharaoh, we've got Pharaoh at home"
-The Pharaoh at home
😅
On the 'wishlist' question: when asked where they would most like to excavate, a great friend (and probably of Campbell's too) Dylan Bickerstaffe answered 'the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo!' There is a huge amount of material in museum storage all over the world that is just waiting for someone to get around to [get the funding to] studying it. To bring in another 'popular' discipline: most of the dinosaurs discovered in recent years have been from pieces already in museum collections rather than from current excavations.
Campbell Price On The Women Who Assassinated A Pharaoh
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal
41,071 views
We often think of Egyptian Pharaohs as glamorous god-king of Ancient times, yet the truth of these people is a lot, lot darker.
Millenia ago, a plot was hatched within the highest echelons of Egyptian society which ended with royal blood being spilt. This assassination, known as the Harem Conspiracy, and the following trial would fascinate historians for the next three thousand years... Who was behind the plot? How close did they come to seizing the throne? And what can archaeology tell us about Egyptian society as a whole?
Our guest today is Dr. Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum and honorary research fellow at University of Liverpool. He’s our go-to Ancient Egypt expert and the author of his newest book ‘Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt.’
00:00 Introduction
02:34 Who was Ramesses III?
04:54 Egypt in the Late Bronze Age
05:49 The legacy of Ramesses the Great
08:51 Succession and uncertainty in ancient Egypt
10:15 The divine role of the pharaoh
12:32 The architectural legacy of Ramesses III
16:30 Socio-economic struggles and the first recorded strike
21:00 The truth behind the harem conspiracy
23:59 Motives of the queen and the rival heir
33:00 The court officials involved in the coup
35:16 Black magic and the physical assassination
36:58 CT scans and the physical evidence of murder
40:55 The judicial papyrus and punishments for regicide
48:44 Mummification, modern exploration, and cultural legacy
This episode was edited by Hannah Feodorov. Produced by Stuart Beckwith and McKenna Fernandez. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.
Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.
All music from Epidemic Sounds.
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