Tristan Hughes

So I'll read it out now because I feel I must.

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said, "'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone, sand in the desert.

Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, and on the pedestal these words appear.'

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

No thing beside remains.

Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.

Interesting, isn't it?

Very poetic.

Not one for poems, and I've probably butchered the reading of that.

I must admit, I didn't do enough English literature growing up.

But it's interesting how in Victorian times they have that idea of Ramesses, even back then.

This idea that no matter how powerful and brilliant he was in his prime, how quickly that legacy can shatter in the years following.

And in the case of Rameses and his successors, it shatters pretty quickly.

Indeed.

Campbell, this has been absolutely fantastic.

I mean, there's so much we could talk about with the real reign of Ramesses and Merenptah as well and what happens all the way down to Tawasret.

But it's a fascinating time period.

Is there anything else you'd like to mention about Ramesses or how we should view this figure going forwards?

They're looking back to Ramesses II.