Ramesses II - The Greatest Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

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[alex]

This guy can make a biographical video essay about about the spider in the corner of my room and I would still listen.

[paulgrattan]

His love for Nefertari his main queen is a true love story. Shes the few Queens not related to the royal family who married out of love. When she died it near destroyed the man. He declared her a goddess had a massive temple built for her had the most beautiful tomb in all of Egypt made for her. He had his favourite love poem for her painted on her tomb wall so she could read it in Death. He went into a grief stricken depression much like Victoria did after Prince Albert's death. If Rameses the second had a weakness it was her.

[antoniomachuca]

Been in prison 2 years. First time using the phone and I look you back up too see history .

[Fitchy-kewz]

Ozymandias, despite the constant analysis of it in English, is my favourite poem

[naomiskilling]

I love the inclusion of deceased on his passport as if some French guy is actually going to think a 3000 year old Egyptian is going to walk through customs

[supersabot]

Simon your work is amazing! Does wonders for me. I suffer from TBI/PTSD migraines and one thing that helps is getting in a dark room and putting on off your videos quietly and it helps me so much so thank you.

[katcandoo]

Wouldn't Ramesses be amazed to see his life story being sponsored by NordVPN more than 3000 years after his death.

[jamellfoster]

He lived to be 90... Fascinating considering this was Ancient Egypt..

[kylewillis]

That bit about the passport was so cool.

[godzillavkk]

A bit of a correction at the end. In April of 2022, Ramesses, along with his father, and every other Pharoah at the museum were removed from the museum and placed in a new series of tombs just for them. The whole thing was even done in a magnificent ancient egyptian themed parade was was broadcast internationally. Kind of heartwarming if one thinks about it. Because every Pharoah wanted the whole world to know their names and their deeds. So thousands of years later, they all got their wish.

[DmOcRsI]

I know this is going to be VERY difficult... but you made the Sea Peoples sound EXTREMELY interesting. Please do one on them!

[michaelsinger]

So many of the monuments he built are still standing today.

[vijaynair]

It was really cool to see his mummy up close in 2002 at the Mummy room at the Museum in Cairo.
I’ll cherish that whole trip til the day I die.

[ecophreak]

Becoming King when you're 60 because your predecessor lived so long, I think Prince Charles can relate

[ianmorris]

I have visited Abu Simbel, truly one of the great wonders in a truly great ancient land, as essential a place to visit as New York or London. There is little doubt that Ramesses II was the greatest Pharaoh, if for no other reason than he lived so long!

[p.l.g]

Can't you just see Ramses and his fellow pharoahs in their (fictional) afterlife, bragging and comparing their accomplishments? "Yeah, you built this, and you conquered that, but I have a PASSPORT! HAH!!"

[armandotalampas]

According to the Hollywood classic "The Ten Commandments"(1956), Rameses II is the pharoah whom Moses had a showdown. But in the documentary film "Exodus" produced by Simcha Jacobovic and James Cameron, the name of the pharoah is Ahmose

[nikanyxspitzer]

“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[nerfdracproductions]

How have you not mentioned the amazing phenomenon that Ramses II created in Abu Simbel..Every year, the Statue of Ramses, located in the part of the temple dedicated to the God of Darkness, gets shone on by the sun. On February 22nd, which is his birthday, and on October 22, his coronation. These are the only two occasions where the Sun shines on the Statue. I have always found that so fascinating.

[revanius]

For a man who was around 90 3000 years ago, arthritis, teeth problems, and bad circulation seem rather minor (I'm rather surprised he had teeth really) and many elderly today have arthritis.