Egypt's golden age

This unit presents an archaeological study of New Kingdom Egypt when the country was one of the dominant powers in the Mediterranean. At the height of the Late Bronze Age, the kings of Egypt were leaders in the intensive elite trading network that created an internationalism of unprecedented scale across the Mediterranean. Combining material, visual and textual evidence with current approaches to archaeology, the unit examines the character of Egyptian culture and its international contacts through four main phases within the New Kingdom: the reigns of the female king Hatshepsut and her co-regent Thutmose III; Amenhotep III to Tutankhamun; Seti I and Ramesses II; and Ramesses III.