THE CONNOTATION OF THE EXPRESSION rnpt n nA Htyw ''YEAR OF THE HYENAS" IN THE LATE OF THE TWENTIETH DYNASTY

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Egyptology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the expression rnpt n nA Htyw ''Year of the Hyenas" as a sign of the
famine that afflicted Egypt in the Late New kingdom, the related texts, and troubles in the Late
Ramesside period. It also addresses the civil war during the reign of Ramses XI at the end of
the 20th dynasty, mainly caused by Panehsy, pharaoh's viceroy in Kush, who rebelled against
the pharaoh.

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