Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
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Userare Setepnere (Ramses II) is one of the few pharaohs who emerges from history with a personality. Early Egyptologists bestowed on him the title of ‘The Great’ for he bequeathed to posterity a series of monuments executed on a staggering scale. “He was a lavish usurper of the buildings ....
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.... Egypt, close to both the Mediterranean Sea, and the vassal states of the Levant. Like all well-born Egyptians, the young Ramses learned to read and write and received instruction in the nation’s theology, literature, and history. Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with the thoughts of past disputed successions very much in mind, d ....
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