Prologue

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 invent Egypt.
But he made damn sure Egypt would never forget him.

And it hasn’t.

Three thousand years later, we’re still talking about the Pharaoh who wouldn’t die.

This is his story.