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Ramses the Great Dies
  The Pharoah's Death   The Reign of Ramses the Great   Preparing the Pharoah for the Afterlife  
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  Pharaoh Ramses II's reign was not merely long, but glorious. Ramses II's father, Pharaoh Seti I, proclaimed his son heir to the throne while Ramses was still a babe. At the age of 10, Ramses was appointed head of the army. Some years later, at the death of his father, the young prince ascended to the throne, inaugurating a reign characterized by great prosperity, territorial expansion, and public building. Ramses demonstrated his godlike nature—the incarnated son of Re—by outshining his predecessors in the expression of his divinely bestowed powers of Ma'at, sekhem, and Heka.

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Prosperity for the People
Building for the Gods
Prowess in Battle

   

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