Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs Page #3

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at Egypt's southern border,

Ramses constructed Abu Simbel,

a warning to barbarians beyond.

Ma'at, divine order was maintained for centuries.

As i was looking for clues to mummification,

i became involved in the lives of the pharaohs.

You visit their tombs and temples, translate their

encryptions, you cant help about wondering about these people.

Im viewing Ramses as a person, but you have to

remember, Ramses was viewed by the Egyptians as a God.

Responsible for divine order in the universe.

What kind of king was Ramses?

What kind of man?

Ramses was the pharaoh of the exodus.

This may be the only face from the Bible,

we will ever see.

When i first looked at his mummy, i remember

about thinking about all those things Ramses did.

Ramses personally led his troops into great battles.

3000 years ago he signed the oldest known peace treaty.

Ramses built more temples up and down the Nile,

than any other pharaoh.

Sure it took 20 years to carve Abu Simbel

out of the mountain, but Ramses rules Egypt for 67 years.

He had plenty of time to build.

For the 1000 miles throughout Egypt, Ramses

built temples to please the gods.

And ensure, that the divine order prevailed.

He intended to be remembered.

Because the ancient egyptians believed,

that the memory of a good man lives forever.

But a council Ramses's deeds were lost to history,

because no one could read the ancient egyptian text,

the hieroglyphs on his temple walls.

And than in the 19th century, scholars

finally cracked the code to hieroglyphs.

A massive inscribed tablet,

the Rosetta stone held the key.

The buildings and the powder scrolls came alive.

Only a few dozen people could read the hieroglyphs.

And one of the finnest translators

was an american Charles Wilbour.

With the unlocking of the secret code,

a passion for Egypt, egyptomania was born.

And ever more adventurers on Egypt shores

to search the sands for hidden tombs.

But when adventurers entered the pharaohs tombs,

there was a mystery.

They found paintings of the pharaohs,

their gods and their mummies everywhere.

Anubis - god of mummification,

protected them after death.

Painted food and drink fed the mummies.

The night sky kept watch over the sleeping pharaohs.

Work on the tombs continued, until

the pharaohs were buried,

Then craftsmen stopped,

what theire were doing, and left.

But tho these tombs were made for kings,

not a single pharaoh's body remained.

Where were the royal mummies?

No one knew.

Tombs have been robbed for thousands of years.

In ancient Egypt, workers build

the tombs in the good times,

and robbed them in the bad.

After the great reign of Ramses,

there have been many hard years,

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