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Ramses II's Secret Police and the First Labor Strike
While we have covered Ramses II’s military victories, diplomatic marriages, and monumental building projects, this episode turns to a quieter but equally revolutionary aspect of his reign: the rise of the state secret police and the world’s first recorded labor strike. In Year 29 of his rule, workers at Deir el-Medina, the artisans tasked with decorating royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, stopped working. They were owed grain rations that had not arrived, a crisis exacerbated by severe drought and famine across Kemet. Lucas and Luna explore how Ramses II responded to this unprecedented…
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