Total War: Pharaoh - Tausret, the Queen-King

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 3 p.m.

b'The Puppeteer. When the old methods are failing, a kingdom needs a new perspective. Across three thousand years, only a few women took power as a \\u201cKing\\u201d in Egypt. One of these was TAUSRET, wife of Sety II and daughter-in-law of Merneptah. When the royal line crumbled, Tausret took power into her own hands. And as Total War: Pharaoh begins, she is ready to do what her relatives and rivals will not\\u2026\\nPreview and purchase Total War: Pharaoh at https://pharaoh.totalwar.com/.\\nMusic in all episodes by Richard Beddow \\xa9 Creative Assembly 2023.\\nSee the History of Egypt Podcast on all podcasting apps and at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.\\nSelect references:\\n\\nD. D. Baker, Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300 - 1069 BC (2008).\\n\\nA. Dodson, Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty (2016).\\n\\nA. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2017).\\n\\nA. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004).\\n\\nK. A. Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt (1982).\\n\\nK. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume IV: Merenptah & The Late Nineteenth Dynasty (2003).\\n\\nR. J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (2013).\\n\\nR. H. Wilkinson (ed.), Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt (2012).\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'