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Show Notes
Khenty-kaus, the Lady Ruler. Around 2500 BCE, Menkaure died without an heir. His sister Khenty-Kau-es ("She is Foremost") stepped into the vacuum and governed the state on behalf of her young sons. This was an interesting period, with a lasting impact on royal power...
- Date c. 2500 - 2490 BCE
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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- Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
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- Vivienne Gae Callender, In Hathor’s Image: the Wives and Mothers of Egyptian Kings from Dynasties I-VI, 2012 (Amazon).
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2010 (Amazon).
- 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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