Dr. Campbell Price

And it may be that Ramses I gives his name to an incredible new settlement developed by his son, Seti I, and his grandson, Ramses II, and that is called Piramses, or Pir Ramses, which in ancient Egyptian means House of Ramses.

Yeah, I think that's a really good way to think about it, Justin, because he gives his name to 11 kings,

this whole period, as I said, is called the Ramesside period and the first Ramesses.

Ramesses I must have ambition because he's chosen by Horemheb.

He must be quite a dynamic guy and he must pass on, at least to his son, if not to his grandson, you know, spoken instructions for what he wants to achieve.

I think he must be.

So I think...

Whether Ramses II, the young prince, is already anointed as the chosen successor.

I mean, even the concept of the crown prince that you get in modern European monarchies, I don't think that quite applies.

You don't have to be... It is notionally the eldest son, but there is internal competition.

And I think it is up to the reigning monarch, the king, to say, okay, you're better than him.

And so, you know, there's the heir apparent, may not necessarily be the eldest boy, but...

I'm as sure as I can be, given the reign length of Seti I, that the baby, young boy, Ramses II, is known to his grandfather.

He gets to it pretty quickly.

And by most Egyptologists' estimation, Seti I really is a pretty self-conscious and effective patron of the arts.

He takes this very interesting name, which is a throwback itself to earlier kings, Wechem Mesut, which means literally repeater of births.

So literally in ancient Egyptian, it means renaissance.

He wants to undo a lot of the Amarna interlude.

We know that.

He goes around restoring images of Amun, adding his own name, where the name wasn't there previously.