The Palace of Pharaoh Merenptah: Examining an Archaeological “Cold Case”

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Fascinating lecture. Thank you so much. I'm sure the finished projects will be incredible.

[@auscountryguy30]

I'm ever so grateful to be able to access all these wonderful videos from Australia. Thank you

[@canovwrms2684]

Really good presentation of the building. Enjoyed.

[@michaelr3583]

The thing that sucks most about ancient egyptian history is that you have to spend more time hearing about the archeologists and their own stories than the actual egyptians!!

[@mahmoudkhalil6961]

That was so cool !! Thank you !

[@wanderinginantiquities55]

One quibble: no mention of politics/influence of imperialism that undergirded the partage system (around 6:16 time marker), lecture does bring in housing of/ contributions of Egyptian workers

[@I-am-Hrut]

I took this guy's intro to egypt class at psu Abington! Great prof!

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

Great presentation, and I wish all lectures would stick to this format in order to see all the graphics more clearly.

[@danielpalmer643]

This was very cool. I wanted to learn a little more about Merenptah because I heard some things about a stele he built. Apparently that stele and this palace are his two most important monuments that have been discovered. If this was just a ceremonial palace, what was the regular palace like? Was it in the same vicinity, or is it still undiscovered? Supposedly Ramses II ruled from Pi Ramesses but Merenptah returned to the old capital of Memphis. Do we know why he returned to Memphis?

[@spockspock]

🧐 wonderful.

[@mohamedmedhat7594]

a great lecture

[@andrederuiter1]

Great lecture, thank you

[@katrussell6819]

I hope the Cleansing Waters room will be available to explore.

[@simonstergaard]

The intro backdrop reminds me of a pub crapper...

[@charsback]

what do u think Hes sitting on..

[@MooPotPie]

@@charsback Phil Harding's hat?

[@RichardPubesJr.]

Your mom reminds me of a pub crapper 🚽 ❤

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Wow that it truly amazing what the Penn Museum has been doing for this palace. Did Clarence Fisher just run out of time to publish his works ? This was very informative 👍👏👏

[@LauraCook-u3b]

Iam just watching very well

[@LauraCook-u3b]

Good times jumped in

[@LauraCook-u3b]

They have a huge Pallace all I say . That's it . We spilled off . I spelled it like this too

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

There should be a special place in hell for archaeologists who don't publish their findings.

[@srfisher101]

I don’t know if Fisher went to hell, but he was my grandfather. He was not famous at all for two reasons: He didn’t like to take the time to publish and he stuttered. Thus, he was not a public speaker at a time when many archaeologists gave public lectures to an interested public. One of the early pictures in this presentation shows Clarence, his wife, and the little boy was my father. BTW, my older brother and I are Penn graduates.

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

@@srfisher101 As a person who stutters myself I understand very well avoiding public speaking, but there is little reason for not to publish. If an archaeologist doesn't want to take the time to publish, at the very least they should work with others who will. He was, of course, not alone in not publishing - only 18 out of 40 planned monographs reporting the results from the excavations at Tikal(1956-70) by Penn were ever published. The work on the acropolis was published two decades after the excavations ended.

[@srfisher101]

Clarence died before I was born. From research I’ve done, he had a lot of problems: personal, physical, and mental. “Excavating Armageddon“ by Eric Cline, has much info on him as the first director there.

[@LauraCook-u3b]

Some of the names

[@romusromulus]

Will we be able to bath in Pharaoh's tub. King tub.

[@KatrinaUribe-b9r]

Fine .

[@krumminsch]

👏🏻 !!

[@trader2137]

cool!

[@KatrinaUribe-b9r]

❤

[@LauraCook-u3b]

Johnny King . Mother's is Mary

[@LauraCook-u3b]

Mary Judis

[@GentileMysteriesConspiracies]

Is this the same Merenptah who is well known to have a stella palette named after him, the artifact is controversial due to the two long necked reptiles on both sides with long necks intertwined ? If anyone is not aware of this artifact please do a search for the "Merenptah stella." I do not know if this was a lineage or not, so there may have been more than one 'Merenptah.'

[@nikobitan7294]

First, there is no such thing as long-necked reptiles in the stele you speak of. You are probably referring to the Narmer palette. Second, there are no long-necked reptiles in Egyptian art. There are long-necked felines called serpopards. Third, History Channel nonsense doesn't count as "controversy".

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

You probably intend to mean the Merenptah stele, which has no reptiles.

[@fionah1580]

Can t you make intro part in some better surroundings? 🙄

[@spockspock]

Sometimes the most profound understanding begins in examination of the mundane.

[@alexandraritter3542]

Why go out of your way to be unpleasant to people who have done something nice, that we can enjoy for free, while stuck at home in a difficult time? If we could all be in the grand entrance halls of museums, we probably wouldn't be watching this on KZbin.

[@spockspock]

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[@alexandraritter3542]

@@spockspock Right, thanks, I'd forgotten. I got that out of office return an age ago.

[@LauraCook-u3b]

I reject it

[@alevendel16]

ACADEMICS GETPOOR PAY

[@LauraCook-u3b]

I reject it

[@LauraCook-u3b]

I reject it