Dr. Campbell Price

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The Ramesses, best known, Ramesses the Great, Ramesses II, actually changes his own name partway through his reign.

Right.

So he goes from Ramessu to Ramesses.

And then rameses is the one that sticks.

Yes.

Geopolitically, this is an interesting time in the Bronze Age.

Different...

Powers and balances of power are shifting in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

There are groups like the Sea Peoples on the go.

So this is a group of island-based people like the Pellicet.

They're moving around the Eastern Mediterranean and the Egyptians perceive them as a threat.

Okay.

So there's the geopolitical stuff.

Then there is Egypt's internal dynastic history.

Best to acknowledge that first.

So Ramesses II rules for the earlier part of the 1200s BCE, and he rules for 66 years.

So he's an old man when he eventually shuffles off the mortal coil and becomes a full god.

And he's managed to outlive no fewer than 12 of his sons.

So that creates a kind of a situation where the 13th son eventually inherits the throne and just power structures are shaken a bit.

So...

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