The Assassination of Ramesses III: The “Harem Conspiracy”

Towards the end of the 20th Dynasty, around 1155 B.C., one of Ancient Egypt’s most powerful rulers, Ramesses III, became the victim of an extraordinary palace conspiracy. The plot, now known as the Harem Conspiracy, was intended not merely to assassinate the king, but to alter the royal succession. At its centre stood Tiye, one...