Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt | Ramses the Great: The Twilight Years (Lecture 8)

Lecture 8: In the later years of Ramses’s reign, his personality seems to have changed from the great warrior/builder to a more sedentary pharaoh. Today, we would call this transformation a midlife crisis. Ramses saw the death of his beloved wife, Nefertari; his eldest son, Amunhirkepshef; and probably others of his children. He erected a beautiful tomb for Nefertari and the largest tomb in Egypt for his sons, as well as a tomb for himself. In this lecture, we will discuss the last 40 years of his reign, highlighting the indications of his transformation and the ways in which these last years differed from his glorious beginning. Finally, we discuss the possibility that Ramses was the unnamed pharaoh of the biblical Exodus.

Essential Reading:
Exodus 1–14.

Supplementary Reading:
Ernest S. Frerichs and Leonard H. Lesko, Exodus, the Egyptian Evidence.

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