Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile 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 of his forerunners and an untiring fabrication of obelisks and colossal statues” (Ancient Egypt: It’s culture and history pp.115). The self glorification of his monuments and the pomposity of his inscriptions have caused modern Egyptologists to view him with a jaundiced eye. During the sixty-seven years of his reign he bu....

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