“Please ask Amun to bring me back alive from this hell hole”.
An epic struggle against overwhelming odds or minor domestic disputes?
Like all empires, New Kingdom Egypt planted the seeds of its eventual destruction during the period of its greatest apparent success, and signs of problems to come were all too evident by the early 19th dynasty. Here we will examine the reality behind military campaigns; strikes staged by the tomb-builders; the threat of the Libyans; the tomb-robberies and ‘Renaissance’ of the late 20th dynasty; the Nubian campaigns of General Piankh; and other stories – told, for once, by the ordinary people of Ancient Egypt.   S