Why Was Ramses II Ancient Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh? | History Makers | Odyssey

Ancient Egypt played home to many strong and terrible leaders, but one stands head and shoulders above the rest, Ramses II. Discover what made this man such a strong leader, both domestically and abroad and why his monuments have endured far longer than many of his contemporaries.

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[johnniecobb]

Anyone else put on a documentary to fall asleep?

[garydslug]

I think the only issue I had with this was the 8-year-long "staring at dancing chicks in his hareem" scene.
Other than that, I learned loads.

[bramvangompel]

Ramesses II, and Seti before him, meant a new beginning after the Armarna Period and at the same time a return to the past glories of ancient Egypt

[DJL]

Circa 1997 computer animation is everything. 😂

[Jaycee]

I definitely watched this documentary 20 years ago in sixth grade world history class.

[EnzoMakaveliProductions]

Nice, something to watch later whilst eating dinner, thank you for the content

[Seven-ldzv]

Another 30 yr old documentary renamed and posted as if recent ? Why do you people keep doing this ? Is this a channel to inform and teach or is this just an archive of every documentary that was ever made in history ?

[LuigiCotocea]

6:42 No one gives a fuck a random dude recorded apparently a living Pharaoh of egypt in 1997 💀

[Katari-mprw]

5 minutes of belly dancing is crazy to me. 😂😂😂

[ancientsitesgirl]

An outstanding monarch, no less than his father...

[FoTheLoveOfFashion]

Am I the only one noticing the absolutely historically inaccurate costumes in this documentary? Egyptians in pants and set-in sleeves? No one consulted a costume historian for this one?

[simonstergaard]

Start to include publication year in the title.

[joeblowfromidaho]

Ramses looks like King Tut from Batman! 🤣🤣🤣

[jimtripman]

If you believe that is the mummy of Ramesses.
A mummy that doesn't look anything like the statues.

[tobberino]

I swear I’ve seen this documentary posted on this channel at least 2 times before. Recycling?

[ThaRealChuckD]

And the bronze age collapse happened in the 1180's BC.

[ssherrierable]

Wow during war ancient Egypt had the equivalent of russias “Wagner group” to increase their numbers and fight with them. That’s amazingly ahead of their time…

[seanh]

Ramesses knew he could not lock out the devil

[MTNwanderings]

He was not, there was another prior to him that was richer and had the greatest expansion Egypt ever had. He has the most children and was the greatest resurgence to reclaim to be great but not the greatest.

[philip]

Vizier was second in command often of royal blood a prince of Egypt usually and the main advisor the high priest was the highest ranking authority on religios matters