This article is taken from the Figaro Special Edition “Ramses II, the event exhibition at the Grande halle de la Villette”.
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"Ramses II, the event exhibition of the Grande Halle de la Villette"
Le Figaro Special Edition
Place where the royal cult was glorified and the function of Pharaoh was magnified in the New Kingdom (around 1550-1070 BC), the "temple of millions of years" was a kind of conservatory of the grandeur of a reign .
By its architecture as by its iconography, it had to perpetuate the almost divine image of its builder and perpetuate his memory for eternity.
During his lifetime, the king was celebrated there during his jubilees and other festivals that punctuated the year.
He was the object of a real cult to which a specific clergy was attached.
On the death of the sovereign, the "temple of millions of years" joined the property of the Crown.
He continued...
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