Horemheb Celebrates His Rule.

The Coronation of King Hor-em-heb. A few months after he took power, Egypt’s new pharaoh Horemheb (“Horus in Celebration”) celebrated his rule. It was a magnificent party…

  • Date: c.1330 BCE (approximate).
  • For the Opet Festival of Tutankhamun, see Episode 146.
  • Music interludes: Luke Chaos

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Bibliography

  • K. M. Bryson, ‘The Reign of Horemheb: History, Historiography, and the Dawn of the Ramesside Era’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2018).
  • Gardiner, ‘The Coronation of King Ḥaremḥab’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39 (1953), 13–31.
  • W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).
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