Sky Eclat
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We must be really grateful for the "colorful past" technology that allowed us to recognize the face of the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses ||, also known as Ramses the Great, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most famous and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, the most splendid period of Ancient Egypt.
His successors and later the Egyptians called him the Great Ancestor. He was a pharaoh with many names
During his coronation ceremony, in addition to receiving the sacred insignia of the scepter
(Heka) and the scourge (Nékhekh), he was given four names that would come to describe his history: Powerful Armed Bull of Justice, Defender of Egypt, Rich in Years and in Victories and Chosen of Ra. In time, the splendor of the temples he commissioned earned him the name of the Builder King.
He is also known as Ozymandias in Greek sources, after the first part of the name of Ramses' reign, Usermaatre Setepenre, the Chosen of Ra.
Ozymandias became especially popular due to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem which he so titled and which seems to magnify the figure of the great pharaoh. The Examiner newspaper used to hold poetry competitions and decided that in one of them the theme would revolve around the Nile River. Shelley and his friend and colleague Horace Smith wrote two poems with that theme and both titled it the same, Ozymandias.
His successors and later the Egyptians called him the Great Ancestor. He was a pharaoh with many names
During his coronation ceremony, in addition to receiving the sacred insignia of the scepter
(Heka) and the scourge (Nékhekh), he was given four names that would come to describe his history: Powerful Armed Bull of Justice, Defender of Egypt, Rich in Years and in Victories and Chosen of Ra. In time, the splendor of the temples he commissioned earned him the name of the Builder King.
He is also known as Ozymandias in Greek sources, after the first part of the name of Ramses' reign, Usermaatre Setepenre, the Chosen of Ra.
Ozymandias became especially popular due to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem which he so titled and which seems to magnify the figure of the great pharaoh. The Examiner newspaper used to hold poetry competitions and decided that in one of them the theme would revolve around the Nile River. Shelley and his friend and colleague Horace Smith wrote two poems with that theme and both titled it the same, Ozymandias.
