Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh by Peter J Brand

Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh by Peter J Brand

Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign (1279-1212 BCE), Ramesses II achieved more than any other pharaoh in the three millennia of ancient Egyptian civilization. Drawing on the latest research, Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior. With restless energy, he fully restored the office of Pharaoh to unquestioned levels of prestige and authority, thereby bringing stability to Egypt. He ended almost seven decades of warfare between Egypt and the Hittite Empire by signing the earliest international peace treaty in recorded history. In his later years, even as he outlived many of his own children and grandchildren, Ramesses II became a living god and finally, an immortal legend. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.

The book is printed on high quality paper rendering the many full-color images of monuments, temples, and renderings of ancient paintings and inscriptions that serve as documentation of Ramesses II's reign. . . Peter J. Brand has given us an up-to-date and illuminating account in this work, the first since Kenneth Kitchen's Pharaoh Triumphant forty years ago. It reveals both the culture and the man behind the legends of this great ruler of Egypt at the zenith of Egypt's power. . . . Brand's work helps us appreciate one of the greatest rulers in human history, often hidden in the mists of time and legend.
Bob Trube

"Interesting, informative, extremely well written. Obviously created from a wellspring of both expertise and emotion, this is a joy to read. Kudos to the author!"
Eric Cline

"An evocative and up-to-date account of the life and times of the man whose shadow-for better or worse-had dominated the image of pharaonic kingship over three millennia."
Aidan Dodson

Peter J. Brand (PhD University of Toronto, 1998) is an ancient historian and Egyptologist specializing in history and culture of ancient Egypt during its imperial age (ca. 1550-1100 BCE). He is author of The Monuments of Seti I and their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Historical and Art-Historical Analysis (Brill, 2000), and has written numerous articles on Egyptian kingship, monumental art and construction, history, popular religion, warfare, and diplomacy during the late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside period. Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh is his fourth book. Since 2001, Brand has served as director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, which is recording, conserving, and interpreting hundreds of scenes and hieroglyphic texts carved on the walls and columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall. The project uses cutting-edge technology to model and reveal the inscriptions on this forest of 134 giant columns. Brand has appeared in over twenty documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic.

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ISBN 13	9781948488488
ISBN 10	1948488485
Title	Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh
Author	Peter J Brand
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lockwood Press
Year published	2023-02-28
Number of pages	608
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