Recently issued by the Egyptian General Book Organization headed by Dr. Haitham El-Hajj Ali, and within the Egyptology series, the book "The Great Ramses" by Professor of History and Egyptology at German universities Professor "Manfred Claus" and translated into Arabic by Dr. Ashraf Nadi Ahmed, while it was reviewed by Dr. Salah El-Khouly, Professor at the Faculty of Archeology- Cairo University.
From the first pages of the book we know that the pharaoh "Ramses II" had ruled in the period from (1279-1213 BC) and he is rightfully the pharaoh of records, and in many scenes he was portrayed as the greatest of the pharaohs, and this was precisely his goal of portraying himself without He stopped in the length and breadth of the country, whether in a picture or a text, in a way that no ruler before and perhaps after him did.
The legacy of this pharaoh is represented primarily in the countless monuments he left behind in all parts of Egypt, and his biography is of great importance to knowing the history of ancient Egypt in the modern state stage, and this biography is distinguished from other biography in its intense focus on its owner and centered around him. This focus on the pharaoh was nowhere as it was in Egypt.
Ramses has been called, as the book informs us, by several titles. He is: the god Horus, the living one on earth, the commander of armies, the destroyer of enemies, and there is no surprise in that; The borders of the Egyptian Empire during his reign extended in the north until it reached the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and extended south in Africa to the location of the present-day state of Somalia.
The writer shows us how to install King Ramses II as ruler of Egypt; After the death of the pharaoh "Siti I", ministers, priests and people of solution and contract rushed to the coronation of Ramses II, because a time without a king is the time of the achieved chaos, darkness that Egypt must overcome quickly, and in Memphis, which is now the village of "Mitt Rahina" located in the Badrashin Center in the Governorate Giza, and when Ramses was twenty-five years old, he was crowned king of Egypt.
The priests, cantors, and cultists performed many magical rituals, then one of them poured holy water on the head and shoulders of the pharaoh, and began to recite: I cleanse you with this water full of life perfection, wisdom, permanence, health, and happiness of the heart, and to celebrate many annual celebrations such as Ra, Always.. Ramses was anointed with oil nine times to protect him from all evil, and he became king of the united Egypt, with its maritime and tribal countries, and continued to rule for 67 years.. The author refers to the origin of the word Ramses, which is made up of two syllables: Ra = the sun god, and ( Moss = child) is the child of the god Ra and his lover, and the word “Su” is added to the two syllables, which means the stem of the papyrus plant. As for Ramses, it is the Greek pronunciation of the name, because the priest “Manetho” who wrote in the history of ancient Egypt was living in the era of the Ptolemies, and they are from the Greeks. They ruled Egypt for about three centuries.
Sun, Aug. 8, 2021
