Similar to when a section of the Abu Simbel cliff collapsed, one colossus collapsed from gravity and nature. Then, later Pharoahs used the fallen stone from statues and temples as their own construction material. While all Pharaohs had hoped to become eternal gods, many had short reigns, reigned over half of Egypt, or had little accomplishments. How many Pharaohs were glorified by ensuing generations of Pharaohs? Ramses III is the only one whose achievements might come close, visible today with an impressive Million Years mansion near the Ramesseum.
But his reign ended abjectly when he was assassinated after a palace power struggle. The last Ramses left royal power so weakened that Egypt entered another era of division and chaos. A new dynasty ruled over half of Egypt.
To build their capital, Tanis, the Kings took nearly every stone and statue of Pi-Ramses and moved them 12 miles away. Choosing to be buried with an object that had belonged to Ramses II meant hoping to bask in his glory. Eventually, priests ceased carving hieroglyphs on temple walls. The history of Egypt became exotic folklore. Sand covered pyramids and temples, often used as stone quarries.
People ate mummies as medicine. They mention a Rhamsesis, Rhamses, Rampses, or Ramesses. Greek Pharaohs had steles carved with Greek texts and their Egyptian translation. One such bilingual text had been found: the Rosetta Stone. The great minds of the time spent twenty years trying to decipher hieroglyphs. One of those scholars was obsessed with Egypt and Coptic since he was a teenager. Coptic is the Church language of Christian Egyptians.
Champollion was convinced it was based on the ancient Egyptian language, went to Coptic mass to hear the priest and ask his help with pronunciation. With the Rosetta Stone, scholars could read the name of a Greek Pharaoh. It became possible to guess the hieroglyphic equivalent to the letters used for Alexander, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, etc. An important step, but it nevertheless remained impossible to read genuine Egyptian names. In Coptic, the sun is Ra.
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His lands stretched from the Mediterranean to Nubia in modern-day Sudan. The early years of his reign saw a focus on foreign policy, during which Ramesses led campaigns to reclaim lost lands and built a series of forts along the Nile Delta. But his longest-lasting legacy is in the form of the buildings and monuments he left behind. In Ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were seen as alink between the gods and the common people, and were considered to be divine themselves.
Ramesses was no exception. To ensure that he was always in the thoughts of his subjects, he commissioned more statues of himself than any other pharaoh. The pinnacle of these projects was Abu Simbel — representing both a masterwork of building as well as political propaganda. But it was Nefertari who is thought to have been his favourite. They married while his father ruled and had ten children together.
Her tomb in the Valley of the Queens is considered one of the most beautiful ever discovered. Images of Nefertari found across Egypt suggest she was famed for her beauty, and poetry written for her by Ramesses can be found within her tomb.
Four statues of the Pharaoh flank the entrance to the larger of the two, the Great Temple, so there can be no doubt asto who it belonged to. His reign is best known for the buildings he commissioned. Early in his reign, he constructed a new capital, Piramesse, in the Nile delta. He built the rock temples of Abu Simbel and his own mortuary temple at Thebes.
The tomb of his principal wife Nefertari, also at Thebes, is one of the best-preserved royal tombs. Rameses reasserted Egyptian control over the Levant in the east and Nubia to the south.
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