Ramesses II: Greatest Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt Or Master Propagandist?
Ramesses the Great was a genius in the art of self-promotion, but do the achievements of Egypt’s ‘king of kings’ truly justify the hype?
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Ramesses the Great was a genius in the art of self-promotion, but do the achievements of Egypt’s ‘king of kings’ truly justify the hype?
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Following on from the volume in which he discussed the Middle Kingdom, John Romer’s new book considers the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom from 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE. This is generally romanticised as one of the great ‘golden ages’ of ancient Egyptian history in which the state reached its pinnacle of power. In this period