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 built so many monuments and seized so many statues of his predecessors that the image of an egomaniac impressed of the public’s mind. Although eleven pharaohs shared his name, Ramses II, “The Great”, is on....

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