199: The Winter War

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sety’s final campaign. In winter of year 8 (approx. December 1296 BCE), the King of Egypt Sety I received news: rebellion in the south. In a land called Irem, now in modern Sudan, locals were resisting Egypt’s monarch. Sety gathered an army of infantry and chariots and set off to war. The story is told by Egyptians participating in the event, and by monuments erected to commemorate it… Logo image: Captive Nubians in distinctive clothing, accompanied by cattle. From TT40, the tomb of Amunhotep Huy, reign of Tutankhamun, by Kairoinfo4u https://www.flickr.com/photos/manna4u/albums/72157665011702090/. See the temple of Beit el-Wali at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Temple_of_Beit_el-Wali Music by Bettina Joy de Guzman www.bettinajoydeguzman.com. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	They were making their way from watering hole to watering hole, leading their herd closer to the river
0:51.5	in order to enjoy pasture and grazing along the edge of the Nile.
0:56.6	These people wore a variety of garments, including animal skins for their kilts, and richly
1:02.1	coloured fabrics and textiles. Their hair was worn short, cropped in a kind of bowl cut around
1:08.4	their heads. Some of them, the wealthy, wore earrings of broad discs that stood out distinctly
1:14.7	against their incredibly dark skin.
1:17.9	These cattle herders were the people that we now call Nubians, living in the region of modern
1:24.0	day Sudan, in a land often called the Bayuda Desert. The ancient Egyptians called them
1:30.2	the people of Irem, a land slightly outside the Egyptian Empire, but close to the frontiers,
1:38.3	and more importantly, not far from the gold mining country. On this day, 3,300 years ago, the clan of cattle
1:47.2	herders saw a cloud of dust gathering upon the horizon. It was an ominous sight,
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