69: North by Northwest

Foreign Lands, Foreign Peoples. We take a break from the reign of Thutmose III to meet some of Egypt's neighbours. The people of Crete (Keftiu), Cyprus (Alashiya), and Byblos (Kupna / Gubla) made significant contributions to their world. We meet some of them. Oh, and there's a goofy poem at the end...

Date. 1465 BCE.

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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.

Select Bibliography:

Donald B. Redford, The Wars in Syria and Palestine of Thutmose III, 2003.

Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times, 1992.

Yannis Galanakis, The Aegean World: A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, 2013.

Richard A. Gabriel, Thutmose III: A Military Biography, 2009.

Shelley Wachsmann, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant, 2008 (Google Books).

Eric H. Cline & David O’Connor, Thutmose III: A New Biography, 2006.

H.R. Hall, “Keftiu and the Peoples of the Sea,” 1902 (JSTOR).

J.B. Pritchard, “Syrians as Pictured in the Paintings of the Theban Tombs,” 1951 (JSTOR).

M.H. Wiener, “Neo-Palatial Knossos: Rule and Role,” 2007 (malcolmweiner.net – ignore Google Warning, false flag).

R. van Dijk, “Bull-Leaping in the Ancient Near East,” 2013 (Academia.edu).

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Release date

Lydbog: 19. december 2016