Dr. Campbell Price
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4 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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It's not about mourning the king.
It's about the king becoming united with the gods.
And so Ramesses II's temple really is vast.
And it's one of the first, if not the first, that has the outer pylon gateway made of stone.
Previous temples had them made of mud brick and they simply haven't survived.
But now I know that there's colleagues in Egypt are working on the restoration of the pylon so it should be more visitable and more visible.
in future, it really was an impressive structure and it was the direct inspiration for one of Ramses' successors, Ramses III.
So basically his temple, what's now called Medinet Habu, is not a carbon copy but an homage to the mansion of millions of years of Ramses II called the Ramesseum today.
No, this is an important point.
It's
willfully consciously at a distance from the tomb and that's from the valley of the kings the valley of the kings is the cemetery that's where the the royal sepulchers are which is you know over a kilometer away but the the temple is for people to visit to leave offerings and to celebrate the eternal
Cult of the king, the union of the king with various gods.
Indeed!
The younger Memnon, yes.
That inspired a piece of poetry.
We'll get to you in a bit later, yes, absolutely.
It's difficult to have a reliable index of, you know, GDP for ancient Egypt, or the equivalent, but...
Suffice it to say, I mean, he would have been the only king almost everyone had ever known.
So I think when he did eventually shuffle off this mortal coil, there would have been a lot of head scratching about how to actually do a pharaoh's funeral.
But you can tell that there are problems set up in store for his eventual successor, Mehmet Ata.
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