Constance Krail-Self
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 391
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Royal intrigue, deception, political ambitions, lust, and a murder conspiracy: this was ancient Egypt during the reign of the last great Pharaoh, Ramses III, over 3000 years ago. The second Queen to the Pharaoh, wanting her son upon the throne, formed what is historically dubbed as the Harem Conspiracy to achieve her goal. Within an ancient papyrus, historians found details of arrests, court trials, names, and subsequent punishments to 39 people involved in this assassination attempt. While the original effort on the Pharaoh's life was thwarted, the mention is made of Ramses' III gruesome murder ten days into court proceedings of the accused. Through modern technology in 2012, we now have a definitive cause of his death. Yet, the murderer has never been mentioned in any ancient Egyptian writings. Was it a Royal cover up or are those documents completely lost to three millennia of time? Perhaps historians have not yet located the texts. Perhaps they never will. Yet the question remains -- who murdered The Last Great Pharaoh, Ramses III?