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08: Menkaura, That Which I Own

08: Menkaura, That Which I Own

The History of Egypt Podcast

March 18, 201320m 35s

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Show Notes

The Third Giza Pyramid. Around 2520 BCE, King Khaf-Re died and his son Men-Kau-Re took power. Menkaure ("The Spirit of Re Endures") oversaw a more modest phase of pyramid building. His monument at Giza was the smallest pyramid yet. Were all of these pyramids straining the economy? We investigate a social structure very different from our own...


Select Bibliography:

  • Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994 (Amazon).
  • Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many, 1996 (Amazon).
  • Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, 2005 (Amazon).
  • Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, 2008 (Amazon).
  • Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 2008 (Amazon).
  • John Romer, A History of Egypt: from the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid, 2013 (Amazon).
  • Robert Wenke, The Ancient Egyptian State, 2009 (Amazon).

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