Tristan Hughes

You've got big fortresses in the south as well.

Parameses' position, and we mentioned Parameses in our previous chat, don't you think how its founding seems to be actually associated with Rameses II's grandfather, the first Rameses.

And his capital in that position, looking towards Syria and the Levant, shows that that really seems to be his top foreign policy priority for the first couple of decades of his reign, until he gets the peace treaty.

Well, we're going to explore all of that in these various different monumental works.

But quickly on the peace treaty itself.

Yes.

One of the oldest known peace treaties in the world.

Possibly the oldest peace treaty we know of in the world.

Do we have the wording surviving?

But are they also signals of the new friendship between the powers, as it were?

Yes.

Almost like with the post-Cold War, you've got the cosmonauts and the astronauts together on the space station.

Because you've also got the Hittite version of it surviving that they've discovered in Hattusa, I think.

And I think they got a copy in the UN or something like that, the oldest peace treaties in the world.

So yeah, it's all very interesting, you know, the symbolic importance of it, the legacy of it down to the day is physical evidence of diplomacy more than a thousand years ago.

But let's move on from that.

So let's go on to his monumental building work in Egypt itself, which he's been doing already.

Yes.

Following in the footsteps of his dad, completing stuff.

But once this peace treaty is signed, do we get the sense that almost he flicks the switch to focus almost completely on the great building works in Egypt?