46: Crushing Our Enemies

Kha-kau-re Senuseret III (Part 4): Decimations. Around 1864 BCE, King Senuseret III launched a new campaign into Nubia. Along the way, he built new fortresses and took many captives. Meanwhile, Egyptians begin practising a rather novel way of destroying their enemies... Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments.  Select Bibliography: Lazlo Török, Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC – AD 500, 2009. Lyla Pinch Brock, Zahi Hawass, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Archaeology, 2003 (Google Books). Derek Welsby, “Hidden Treasures of Lake Nubia,” Sudan & Nubia volume 8 (2004). Carola Vogel, The Fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000-1780 BCE, 2010 (Google Books). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices