24a: Decline and Fall of the Old Kingdom (Part 1)
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End of the Old Kingdom. Around 2215 BCE, King Pepy II was dead. In his wake the Sixth Dynasty came to its end, and a series of short-lived rulers followed through Dynasties 7 and 8. Eventually, the Old Kingdom as a concept faded away. What happened, and why? There are many reasons for this process, including political instability, economic collapse, and climate change... Date c. 2215 - 2100 BCE, www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com , Support the Show at www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast , Facebook www.facebook.com/egyptpodcast , Twitter www.twitter.com/egyptianpodcast , Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com . Logo Image: Ernesto Graf, from Wikimedia CC BY-SA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dashur_and_South-Saqqara_pyramids.jpg
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Why did the Old Kingdom disappear? Was it an overnight "collapse," or something more long term? In this episode, and the next, we explore the question in overview. This episode focusses on the historical sources including King Lists, Classical authors like Herodotos and Manetho, and the fragmentary evidence for some of the "shadow kings" of this period…
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M. Baud, ‘The Relative Chronology of Dynasties 6 and 8’, in E. Hornung et al. (eds), Ancient Egyptian Chronology (2006), 144—158. Available in pdf at Digital Giza.
J. von Beckerath, Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen (1999).
W. Helck, ‘Anmerkungen zum Turiner Königspapyrus’, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 19 (1992), 150–216. English translation available at Pharaoh.se.
R. J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (2013). Available at Internet Archive.
K. Ryholt, ‘The Turin King-List’, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant 14 (2004), 135—155.
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