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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Biblical Connections
Dr. David Neiman details the Biblical events that, he believes, corresponds to Egyptian historical events.
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Was Akhenaten a Prophet?
Pharaoh Akhenaten is often credited with being the first monotheist. But according to Dr. David Neiman, his actions were motivated not by religious conviction, but by political necessity.
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Haremhab
Dr. Neiman describes the political intrigue surrounding a palace scribe of Akhenaten, Haremhab, a man who became close to the deceased Pharaoh's widow, and after the death of Tutankhamun, becomes Pharaoh himself...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): The Amarna Letters
Discovered in 1897, the letters of Tel El Amarna shed light on the political tensions that existed between Egypt, Canaan and Amurru during the period known as the Amarna Age. King Labayu of Shechem pleads...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Decoding Hieroglyphics
How did Egyptologists decipher hieroglyphics? Jean-Francois Champollion started working on decoding the ancient Egyptian writing when he was 9 years old at the end of the eighteenth century. When...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Hatshepsut (continued)
Hatshepsut leads a regency council to set the date for the coronation of Thutmose III. After four years of consultations with the oracles, the priests announce that Hatshepsut is to be Pharoah of...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Hatshepsut's Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut starts a program of aggressive trade with the outside world. She commissions her architect, Senenmut, to build an impressive funerary temple on the side of a mountain. After her death...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Prelude to the Amarna Age
Thutmoses III conquered much of the near east up to the Euphrates river. Egypt was now a great economic and military power and wealth accumulated among a new class of Egyptian - the middle class...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): The Amarna Revolution
Dr. David Neiman describes the Amarna age in Egyptian history as a revolution in which ideas and attitudes manifested themselves through art. The Pharaohs were no longer depicted as flawless demigods...
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The History of Egypt (Part 2): Amenhotep to Akhenaten
In this installment on his ancient Egyptian lecture series, Dr. Neiman describes all the key pharaohs and developments between the pharaohs Amenhotep and Akhenaten.
