166: Restoration III, Re-Restoring

Horemheb vs Ay, Tutankhamun, and others. Everyone talks about Horemheb "erasing" Akhenaten. But the King demolished monuments of several rulers, and erased the names of others. What does it all mean?

Episode details:

Date: c. 1327 BCE.

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Music intro: Luke Chaos.

Music interludes: Luke Chaos.

Music outro: Keith Zizza.

 
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L. Cotelle-Michel, ‘Présentation préliminaire des blocs de la Chapelle de Sésostris Ier découverte dans le IXe Pylône de Karnak’, Cahiers de Karnak XI.

A. Dodson, Amarna Sunrise: Egypt From Golden Age to Age of Heresy (2014).

A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, 2017).

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W. J. Murnane, ‘Tutankhamun on the Eighth Pylon at Karnak’, Varia Aegyptiaca I (1985), 59—68.

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