Part one of term paper
Userare Setepnere (Ramses II) is one of the few pharaohs who emerges from history with a personality. Early Egyptologists bestowed on him the title of ‘The Great’ for he bequeathed to posterity a series of monuments executed on a staggering scale. “He was a lavish usurper of the buildings of his forerunners and an untiring fabricatio ...

Part two of term paper
... of his predecessors that the image of an egomaniac impressed of the public’s mind. Although eleven pharaohs shared his name, Ramses II, “The Greatâ€�, is one posterity remembers. Ramses ancestral home was the eastern delta town of Avaris. Once the Hyskos capital, Avaris lay in a cosmopolitan part of Egypt, close to both the Mediterranean Sea, and the vassal states of the Levant. Like all well-born Egyptians, the young Ramses learned to read and write and received instruction in the nationâ ...