Dr. Campbell Price
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pushing to its limit that area of influence as we were saying before not necessarily an empire but an area of real influence and a buffer zone against these bigger nastier powers that in any case are some distance away but on that point actually about the whole reign of rameses ii
There is a practical element to this in that in the reign of Thutmose III, he was setting off from the capital city of Memphis, which is essentially modern Cairo.
But with the reign of Ramesses II, maybe a little before then, there is a shift, a strategic shift, to move this incredible royal city.
And if we define the capital city as the place the king spends most time in, the principal palace, that is Paramses.
Okay.
So that is on the northeast edge of the Nile Delta.
So strategically, it is closest...
to launch an expedition into the Levant.
It is also provided, I know I have friends who've excavated that site, it's provided with huge stables to get the horses and to have your infantry barracked there.
So you have a kind of a sense of a standing army.
And we know from monumental sources, tied interestingly closely to the cult of Ramesses II as a god,
So at the same time as the military preparation is being ramped up, so is the idea of Ramses being a god.
So you're fighting for a god, not just the king.
There's lots of evidence of the worship of statues of Ramses II, and all the worshippers are members of the military.
So you really get that sense of, okay, there is ambition, maybe?
Anxiety is another word.
that you have this city which is essentially an island that you couldn't attack if there was an attack from you know the Hittites you would see the people invading the force some distance away and also you have a kind of standing army waiting
so there is also this feeling of that paramses being like a border frontier town so if the worst were to happen egypt would be prepared so these skirmishes and the the who owns who or who is loyal to who may seem trivial but the bigger political geopolitical military question is
with these rising empires, if something really catastrophic happens and, God forbid, there was an invasion, because this has happened to the Egyptians before and will happen many times in the future, the Egyptians need to be prepared.
So on the eastern front, you have, I mean, Paramus is the one, but we know Ramesses is also building on the western front towards Libya.
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