RAMSES

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - City of the Setting Sun
3. Chapter Two - Son of Seti
4. Chapter Three - Crowned at 14, King at 24
5. Chapter Four - Kadesh
6. Chapter Five - The Hittite Peace
7. Chapter Six - Builder of Eternity
8. Chapter Seven - Abu Simbel and the Ego of Stone
9. Chapter Eight - Wives, Sons, and Sister-Goddesses
10. Chapter Nine - The Plague King?
11. Chapter Ten - Ruling the Ruins
12. Chapter Eleven - Outliving the Heirs
13. Chapter Twelve - Death of a God
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Cult of Ramses
15. Chapter Fourteen - Valley of the Kings and Thieves
16. Chapter Fifteen - Rediscovered
17. Chapter Sixteen - Passport to Paris
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Man Who Wouldn’t Leave

Excerpt

PROLOGUE HE WAS SUPPOSED to be dead. Dead like the others. Dead like the thousands of kings, queens, scribes, priests, and generals who ruled the Nile and vanished into sand. But not Ramses. He outlived his rivals. Then his sons. Then his grandsons. Then Egypt. Then time. When his tomb collapsed, he was moved. When his body rotted, he was treated. When his name faded, it was re-carved. When the world forgot Egypt, it remembered Ramses. He is the reason you know what a pharaoh is. He’s the face carved into cliffs. The name inked on monuments. The legend dragged into scripture. And the mummy with a passport. The man who ruled so long, it broke the system and cemented his myth. He didn’t...