RAMSES
The extraordinary 67-year reign of Ramses II, the pharaoh who built monuments to match his ego and loved his queens like gods.
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Chapters
18 total- 01Prologue
- 02Chapter One - City of the Setting Sun
- 03Chapter Two - Son of Seti
- 04Chapter Three - Crowned at 14, King at 24
- 05Chapter Four - Kadesh
- 06Chapter Five - The Hittite Peace
- 07Chapter Six - Builder of Eternity
- 08Chapter Seven - Abu Simbel and the Ego of Stone
- 09Chapter Eight - Wives, Sons, and Sister-Goddesses
- 10Chapter Nine - The Plague King?
- 11Chapter Ten - Ruling the Ruins
- 12Chapter Eleven - Outliving the Heirs
- 13Chapter Twelve - Death of a God
- 14Chapter Thirteen - The Cult of Ramses
- 15Chapter Fourteen - Valley of the Kings and Thieves
- 16Chapter Fifteen - Rediscovered
- 17Chapter Sixteen - Passport to Paris
- 18Chapter Seventeen - The Man Who Wouldn’t Leave
Edition notes and short pages
RAMSES
RAMSES
The Pharaoh Who Wouldn’t Die
by James Johnson
Dedication
To the ones who built too big, loved too loud, and lived too long.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THANK YOU TO the stonecutters, the scribes, and the rule-breakers. The ones who carved names into time and dared to believe they could last forever.
Thanks to the readers who came back for another reign.
And to Ramses, who simply refused to shut up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ WRITES THE history they didn’t teach you in school. Sharper, louder, and built to last. With hundreds of books spanning biography, civilization, power, and myth, he brings the dead back to life and makes the past impossible to ignore. He lives in the empire of ideas and rarely leaves.
COPYRIGHT
© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be copied, stored, or transmitted in any form without the author’s permission, except in the case of brief quotations used for review or commentary.
This book is a work of nonfiction based on historical sources, academic research, and primary accounts. Some narrative elements have been dramatized for readability, but the facts are grounded in historical record to the fullest extent available. All interpretations, mistakes, and occasional attitude are entirely the author’s own.