32: The Repeating of Births

Amenemhat I (Part 1): A Self-Made King. Around 1990 BCE, a new King took power. His name was Amun-em-Hat ("Amun in the Forefront"). First things first, he had to justify his unusual accession...

• Date c.1990 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

• Dorothea Arnold, “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 1991.
• Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.
• Wolfram Grajetzki. Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. 2009.
• Gay Robins. The Art of Ancient Egypt. 2008.

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