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Late Dynasty 19 (Seti II, Amenmesse, Siptah, Tausret)

Late Dynasty 19 (Seti II, Amenmesse, Siptah, Tausret)

1203 BCE–1186 BCE · New-Kingdom

A grouped entry for the troubled close of Dynasty 19: Seti II, whose throne was contested by the rival or usurper Amenmesse; then the boy-king Siptah under the powerful regent Tausret, who went on to rule as king in her own right before the dynasty collapsed into a brief anarchy that the later Great Harris Papyrus blames on a Syrian named Irsu. All are historical; Tausret is a female king, and the order of Seti II and Amenmesse is debated.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Late Dynasty 19 (Seti II, Amenmesse, Siptah, Tausret)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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