This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-Série “Ramses II, the event exhibition at the Grande halle de la Villette”.
Discover the grandeur and mysteries of ancient Egypt through the life of the greatest builder pharaoh, genius propagandist, protector of the arts, father of more than a hundred children...160 sumptuously illustrated pages.
Ramses II, the event exhibition of the Grande halle de la Villette
Le Figaro Hors-Série
He had, truly, made an arrow of any wood and history, with him, had become propaganda according to the vocation which had already been his for a long time, but in proportions never reached before.
He had sprinkled Upper and Lower Egypt with his colossi, his monuments, his inscriptions.
From the drilling of a well in the heart of the desert, he had performed a miracle which had seen Pharaoh make water gush forth from the bowels of the earth.
He had celebrated an earthquake that had thrown the colossal statue of the god Ptah to the ground like a happy omen;
an abundant flood of the Nile, like the dazzling sign of the predilection of the gods, their solemn present at its feasts...
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