Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty pdf

Dodson, nato a Londra l'11 settembre 1962, ha studiato alla Langley Grammar School (1975–81), prima di trasferirsi al Collingwood College, Durham (1981-2). Ha completato una laurea presso l'Università di Liverpool (1985), e un MPhil (1986, Museum Practice and Archaeology) e PhD (1995, Egyptology) al Christ's College di Cambridge. Ha iniziato ad insegnare all'Università di Bristol nell'ottobre 1996, ricoprendo anche la carica di Simpson Professor of Egyptology presso l'American University del Cairo da gennaio a luglio 2013. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano l'Antico Egitto, con particolare attenzione alla storia e alla cronologia dinastica , architettura della tomba, design del sarcofago e della bara, equipaggiamento canopico e storia dell'egittologia; è anche uno storico delle marine della fine del XIX e dell'inizio del XX secolo e ha scritto sulle tombe reali della Gran Bretagna.

Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty pdf da Aidan Dodson

The reign of Rameses II is one of the best-known of Egyptian history, with almost every ancient site preserving traces of his time. However, after his death, his dynasty, the Nineteenth, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with theaccession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among their descendants. Aidan Dodson explores the mysteries of the origins of the usurper-king Amenmeses and the career of the 'king-maker' of the period,the chancellor Bay. Having helped to install at least one pharaoh on the throne, Bay's life was ended by his abrupt execution, ordered by the woman with whom he had shared the regency of Egypt for the young and disabled King Siptah. Finally, the author considers how that woman-Tawosret-became thelast true female pharaoh, and how she finally lost her throne to the founder of the Twentieth Dynasty, Sethnakhte.