Espasa

c. 1155 BCE

A conspiracy against Ramesses III

A plot by the queen Tiye to put her son Pentawere on the throne is set for a festival around 1155 BCE. The Turin Judicial Papyrus records the trials, with 38 death sentences. Ramesses III dies in 1154; a 2012 study found a deep throat cut on his mummy.

New Kingdom EgyptPoliticsLate Bronze Age

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