Ramesses II - The Greatest Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

[@alex6455]

This guy can make a biographical video essay about about the spider in the corner of my room and I would still listen.

[@MrPrussianjester]

right? He spoils us as it is.

[@pacificblue5461]

His name was Akmman-Raz and his eight legged kingdom lasted for 12 spiders years, which is about 12 human days. During the height of his reign, Akmman-Raz ate several flies and at least two smaller spiders.

[@Skydrag.V60]

I love Simon

[@reauxnbears]

It’s definitely not the neon light

[@berniemadoff9688]

@@pacificblue5461 😂

[@paulgrattan3885]

His love for Nefertari his main queen is a true love story. Shes the few Queens not related to the royal family who married out of love. When she died it near destroyed the man. He declared her a goddess had a massive temple built for her had the most beautiful tomb in all of Egypt made for her. He had his favourite love poem for her painted on her tomb wall so she could read it in Death. He went into a grief stricken depression much like Victoria did after Prince Albert's death. If Rameses the second had a weakness it was her.

[@vectorfox4782]

Reminds me of the same story as the Taj Mahal. When men truly fall in love they fall hard and there’s no recovery from that love lost.

[@Kar90great]

@@vectorfox4782 sorry to burst your bubble but it's a fake story

[@victoriabardsley8097]

Nefertari was also an intelligent woman, being able to read and write. How many women can say their husband loved them so much that they get a whole temple dedicated to them?

[@lf1496]

I went to see the monument he dedicated to her at Abu Sibel. The guides explained to us they built it in Nubia and called her "The Queen of Two Lands" because she was Nubian. When I was in Egypt many people kept telling me I looked like Nefertari😂 my father did his DNA and found he is actually a descendant of Ramses III different dynasty same name 😂

[@veronicajensen7690]

he started to build her temple before she died but when it was completed she was dead, in Nubia they don't believe the great love story, she was just one of many wife's, they believe it was all about getting acceptance in Nubia where she was from, Nubiens and Egyptians often fought during history but also had alliances, like this alliance through marriage, at this time in history Nubia was under the Egyptian throne

[@Fitchy-ke3wz]

Ozymandias, despite the constant analysis of it in English, is my favourite poem

[@supersabot5949]

Simon your work is amazing! Does wonders for me. I suffer from TBI/PTSD migraines and one thing that helps is getting in a dark room and putting on off your videos quietly and it helps me so much so thank you.

[@kylewillis9732]

That bit about the passport was so cool.

[@derrickthewhite1]

Occupation: King

[@andersjjensen]

I'm not entirely sure which is more absurd.. that the French government didn't look past it and just go "It's an archaeological artefact and not a person" or that the Egyptians didn't go "Yo fo real bro?!?" at the request...

[@vijaynair2403]

It was really cool to see his mummy up close in 2002 at the Mummy room at the Museum in Cairo. I’ll cherish that whole trip til the day I die.

[@antoniomachuca8180]

Been in prison 2 years. First time using the phone and I look you back up too see history .

[@ZOMBIEX05]

Lol.

[@OwentheKingofDudes]

What you do?

[@LaurieAnnCurry]

Welcome back. Hope all goes well for you

[@wrensreviews1125]

What have you done

[@naomiskilling1093]

I love the inclusion of deceased on his passport as if some French guy is actually going to think a 3000 year old Egyptian is going to walk through customs

[@Albadry7]

🇪🇬🤍🌹

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:20 - Chapter 1 - Becoming pharaoh 3:25 - Chapter 2 - The battle of kadesh 7:40 - Mid roll ads 9:10 - Chapter 3 - Peace in our time 14:05 - Chapter 4 - Ramesses the builder can we fix it 18:25 - Chapter 5 - The greatest ancestor's legacy - Chapter 6 -

[@michaelsinger4638]

So many of the monuments he built are still standing today.

[@GIBBO4182]

Ancient Egypt is a fascinating subject even to this day!!

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Indeed

[@stephenschiffman5940]

Found Moon Knight's KZbin account

[@duncancurtis1758]

Je suis le Pharaon.

[@nacht2377]

@@duncancurtis1758 why do you speak french then?

[@tnikoli40]

@@nacht2377 cause modern day france is just another africa, shame what happened to a once great european nation

[@DmOcRsI]

I know this is going to be VERY difficult... but you made the Sea Peoples sound EXTREMELY interesting. Please do one on them!

[@GillRant]

I'd recommend watching the bronze age collapse episode on the fall of civilizations channel, its amazing and goes into detail about the sea peoples.

[@nikanyxspitzer]

“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[@revanius2213]

For a man who was around 90 3000 years ago, arthritis, teeth problems, and bad circulation seem rather minor (I'm rather surprised he had teeth really) and many elderly today have arthritis.

[@london_james]

I'm 45 and don't have fillings 😁👍 Some people are lucky

[@jonhall2274]

@@rft9776 While you're correct, though, one of the ingredients in the beer that Egyptians drank(which was A lot) was SAND. This finding is what archeologist figure why every mummy, & other Egyptian bodies has terrible ground downed teeth. 🥴😵‍💫

[@jamellfoster6029]

So true... He was old enough to be my grandpa & I'm 43...

[@jamellfoster6029]

@@london_james you are blessed... I'm 43 but I have had a few fillings but I don't have arthritis nor blood pressure issues...

[@omgitsclinton]

@@london_james dental health is weird I knew of a guy who claimed he never flossed and his oral health was still good. Some people are just lucky

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@nerfdrac772productions6]

How have you not mentioned the amazing phenomenon that Ramses II created in Abu Simbel..Every year, the Statue of Ramses, located in the part of the temple dedicated to the God of Darkness, gets shone on by the sun. On February 22nd, which is his birthday, and on October 22, his coronation. These are the only two occasions where the Sun shines on the Statue. I have always found that so fascinating.

[@ianmorris7485]

I have visited Abu Simbel, truly one of the great wonders in a truly great ancient land, as essential a place to visit as New York or London. There is little doubt that Ramesses II was the greatest Pharaoh, if for no other reason than he lived so long!

[@King_Cova]

Why would anyone want to visit New York? It's far too full of Americans and literally nothing exciting about a large grey city.

[@haroldmorris5901]

The 'Set king' Rameses II, 19th Dynasty, DID NOT build the Het Heru Temple at Abu Simbel, he USURPED (stolen and reinscribed) it. This Temple was 'Raised' during the 18th Dynasty, for Amenhotep III and his "Great Royal Queen" Tiye by their Chief Architect, Amenhotep, son of Het Heru Priestess Hapu. The problem with Rameses II, besides being a 'Follower of Set', is that he lived way too long, and hired Greek mercenaries as his personal bodyguard. He 'opened the door' of Kemit to the barbarians, which allowed other 'Followers of Set', the Greeks, Persians, Assyrians, Romans, Copts, Arabs, French, British, etc., to RAVISH HER...

[@aWILDsomethingCAME]

@@haroldmorris5901 what a weird cope

[@DJMarcO138]

Um...what? lol Just, no.

[@haroldmorris5901]

@@DJMarcO138 Have you ever heard the story about the Pied Piper who led the children, dancing, and singing, off a cliff? As the glaciers rapidly melt and the Magnetic North Pole returns to Hudson Bay, I'm here to warn the children that the 'cliff' is very close. Will they heed the warning and stop following the Pied Piper? I doubt it...

[@godzillavkk]

A bit of a correction at the end. In April of 2022, Ramesses, along with his father, and every other Pharoah at the museum were removed from the museum and placed in a new series of tombs just for them. The whole thing was even done in a magnificent ancient egyptian themed parade was was broadcast internationally. Kind of heartwarming if one thinks about it. Because every Pharoah wanted the whole world to know their names and their deeds. So thousands of years later, they all got their wish.

[@but_seriouslyfolks]

Wouldn't Ramesses be amazed to see his life story being sponsored by NordVPN more than 3000 years after his death.

[@armandotalampas4800]

According to the Hollywood classic "The Ten Commandments"(1956), Rameses II is the pharoah whom Moses had a showdown. But in the documentary film "Exodus" produced by Simcha Jacobovic and James Cameron, the name of the pharoah is Ahmose

[@jamellfoster6029]

I noticed that in later years they date the Exodus from Egypt to an earlier time as they changed the date of the Hyksos flourishing in Egypt which is probably when Joseph & the other Jews/Israelites flourished as the Hyksos were Semitic like the Jews & possibly showed more favor to them than Native Hamitic Egyptians would...

[@armandotalampas4800]

According to the biblical chronology of Jehovah's Witnesses, the year of the Exodus is 1513 BCE. They've been teaching this for more than a hundred years. I'm really amazed that investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici came also to this conclusion. JWs also never mentioned that Rameses II is the pharoah during the Exodus

[@timothyhouse1622]

They can use any name they want since Moses was fictional.

[@Emcee_Squared]

@@timothyhouse1622 Not necessarily fictional. Lack of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[@destry5250]

Tut Moses III . . .

[@jamellfoster6029]

He lived to be 90... Fascinating considering this was Ancient Egypt..

[@StrummaChick]

As Pharaoh and the diet, health wise he’s a far better off chance living to 90 than we do. Now, having to look over his shoulder so no one bumped him off for his throne…it’s amazing he lived until 90

[@areiaaphrodite]

I always love a Biographics Egyptian video 😍

[@ThatNorma]

been to his tomb 1 month ago. Its something breathtaking

[@frankreads8618]

The treatment of Kadesh is pretty amazing. It's also remarkably close to the more modern peace treaties you see today.

[@peoplearepeople9256]

My son is doing a presentation on Ramesses and this is so helpful! thx, this is so helpful! Cant wait for your next vid!😄😄

[@p.l.g3190]

Can't you just see Ramses and his fellow pharoahs in their (fictional) afterlife, bragging and comparing their accomplishments? "Yeah, you built this, and you conquered that, but I have a PASSPORT! HAH!!"

[@mtb3803]

You made my day with this comment 🤣

[@p.l.g3190]

@@mtb3803 Aww, thank you so much! Glad to be of help.

[@sarahhaaniaxoxo]

Underrated comment!!!!!! Lol but Rameses won't really need it in the afterlife XD

[@adamkadir3803]

The Sea Peoples mystery has been informally solved by people who study the Bronze Age. They were Mycanean Greeks. There's quite a bit of archaeological evidence to support the theory. The skinny of it is: The Ancient Greeks talked about the Minoans and their ancesters as not needing walls due to their navy. Their ships were advanced enough that they had materials from locales that shouldn't have been accessible. They lose to the Egyptians and become slaves; because unlike the other Bronze Age civilisations; the Egyptians refused to fight the Sea Peoples on the Sea Peoples terms. The Sea Peoples get sent north on land, became the Philistines. The Philistines eventually merge in with the Phoenicians. Philistine/Phoenician pottery/art is inexplicably similar to the Mycaneans/Minoans. I think there was something else like language or weapons or whatever...but that's the gist.

[@playergasman37]

Finally, being an early arrival at one of my favorite channels. I truly do love your and your teams work Simon. I wish you all the best of luck

[@SamOfChristendom]

I can watch these Biographic videos over and over

[@jjmulvaney2758]

He’s a good man at heart, Ramses the great that is.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@ecophreak1]

Becoming King when you're 60 because your predecessor lived so long, I think Prince Charles can relate

[@colincasey440]

1:17,9:09,18:20

[@amandajones661]

Egypt is just amazing!

[@cookieisdabomb]

I asked about this video- super excited to watch this!

[@ChopBassMan]

It's always heartbreaking to me that so many wonderful treasures from the past (like the silver tablets that the first recorded peace treaty were written on) are plundered and any valuable metals are simply melted down by the thieves. At least in the case of the peace treaty they had the foresight to save it in several ways in several places. On the other hand, I suppose that if valuable metals weren't recycled, no matter whether done legitimately or not, that we would have run out of them by now.

[@CatnamedMittens]

Arabs probably melted them down

[@CookieManatee]

Not even just metals... I read somewhere that back in the day (1880s) a farmer found a grave full of cat mummies (probably sacrificial place - there were supposedly hundred thousands of them), and 180000 got sold in England - the poor cat mummies ended up being ground up and used as fertilizer...like...the disrespect. There's this old newspaper article collection about it on strangehistory

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job.

[@pyromania1018]

Oh goody! A *completed* video!

[@Geronimo904]

As a fan of you, your channels, & your writers' works... As well as a descendant of this man & dynasty... I found this video to be an extra special treat. Thank you.

[@bodiejay2859]

I absolutely love your shows.

[@theawesomeman9821]

"Ramesses! Let my people go!"-Moses

[@babyramses5066]

Abandon this futile mission Moses!

[@braydanduchene7983]

I would love to see one on Edward The Elder of the Anglo Saxons!

[@ZOMBIEX05]

Another Egyptian video! My lucky day! : )

[@iamthepinknarwhal]

Also fantastic video I really love your content subscribing. I needed something new to listen to.

[@John-14798]

*Simon I love you 💕*

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Could you do one on Rome's last pagan emperor Julian the Apostate

[@aWILDsomethingCAME]

the last cringe emperor of rome

[@Prince0fm0rbid]

I’d watch that

[@vitorpereira9515]

That infidel!? Well at least there is a happy ending.

[@christoffellner84]

we need so much more videos on Pharaohs

[@humbertoventura1344]

hell yea, finally!

[@jamesmartin6050]

Future Video suggestion - Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.

[@darkcosmos88]

Return the slab.... Rameses!!! the man in gauze!

[@jjmulvaney2758]

Ramses is one great pharaoh.

[@rejvaik00]

3000 years later and his name is remembered that's the most amazing

[@lalifromcali6439]

Your beard game is strong!!! Looking great!

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@amonone399]

Ramses, the second one of the greatest Africa Pharaoh ever, a builder and conqueror.

[@beachboy0505]

An excellent video 📹 FOR BANK HOLIDAY Watched it twice

[@romeotamba510]

We the Descendants of ramses we are still alive and well.

[@samuellomotey5935]

I really enjoyed this video. Could you do one on King Taharqa of the 25 dynasty. Thanks.

[@LoJo]

Bonus-bonus fact: On April 3, 2021, 22 mummies - including Rameses II and Nefertari - were moved to their new location in Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, in what was dubbed the “Pharaoh’s Golden Parade,” a 2-hour-long elaborate, live-streamed spectacle in which the mummies were slowly moved in special nitrogen-filled caskets (with internal cameras), which were designed to resemble royal funereal barges. The route was even re-paved to ensure a smooth ride. There are a number of videos summarizing the event; for the dedicated Egyptologist, the full 2 hour event is also available for viewing.

[@maggiemae7539]

It was a ritual to bring them back!

[@lonestarstate1981]

Iron Maiden the Rock group sent me here. This channel rocks ! Keep up the good work dude.

[@sartoriraphaelr]

The whistling of the soundtrack in the background really bugged me out til I figured out that was the video background music.

[@donsandsii4642]

Rames II did obtain immortality, name and achievements still well known in 2022 AD

[@valthormoor5426]

Absolutely.

[@travisprusia90]

Sorry for the random comment on this video I just wanted to comment on the most recent video, I wanted to see if there was a video or if you could make a video on the transition from Greek power to Roman power in the early bc's? Absolutely love your videos keep up the great work!

[@chadfrench955]

He’s the greatest as far as we know.

[@joeyc9418]

It's kinda nice to see that the "best leader figure guy" is someone who was better at keeping peace rather than conquering, most of those guys are brutal

[@wild360]

They have Ramses looking like Legolas at 11:16, shooting arrows from behind his back!

[@joshuapatrick682]

The battle of kadesh was a tactical Egyptian victory and a strategic Hittite victory…

[@frevazz3364]

A tie.

[@88happiness]

I liked the part about the passport! Too cool!

[@jayplay8869]

The sea ppl are that team player in AoE3 that only plays water, ages to two last and doesn’t army up while his team gets slaughtered... only to hit age five by 15 minutes and spamming manlukes and heavy cannons against an army of 100s of age two and three fadder. Oh the joy of those games. To see the little numbers dance around your 10 cav as the rockets explode.

[@zacharisincennes8026]

You should do a video on Louis Braille - the inventor of braille for the blind.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

I loved that fact at the end.

[@maddyr.4810]

I literally clicked on this video thinking “oh man I must have missed this one from a few years ago. Simon looks younger.” 😳 then realized it’s only been 3 days. Anyways, great video!

[@gushingranny475]

Do a vid on Bashur or Hafez Al-Assad, or Egypt’s Nasser

[@JeromeDoyle]

How did he live to be 90? That part is the most baffling.

[@jeremiahardales6597]

REETUUURN THE SLAAAAB REETUUURN THE SLAAAAB

[@Albadry7]

I’m from Egypt 🇪🇬 👋

[@GORO911]

Yea and ?

[@y3tti627]

Pharaoh Gordon Ramesses be like: *this Croc meats FUCKIN RAAAWW*

[@coucoubrandy1079]

I get mixed up with all these pharaohs, but this is a really good start. My favourite Pharaohs are Akhenaten and Hapshsetsout and she was a women

[@deplorablekunt]

Is it just me, or is Simon wearing a “Dexter” serial killer shirt during this video?

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

He has a busy schedule so he was already dressed to kill someone right after making the video.

[@duncancurtis1758]

Dun dun.

[@aydankhaliq2967]

Could you do a video on Juan Manuel Fangio? Or Alain Prost?

[@Kr0wket]

Saw this is in the hells kitchen season 11 playlist and had to see what was up

[@Wardner213]

Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)

[@TwiddleFingersDB]

I was listening to this in my heaphones while on the bus, I had to stop and go back because I thought you said the "Kardashian scriptures". Was quite relieved that is was the Kadesh inscriptions.

[@projectdelta50]

Marys voice will haunt me in my sleep

[@ocelot_gaming7607]

May I mention a suggestion the wave experiment and the dolphin lsd experiment

[@mrtrailesafety]

I saw the Ramses II exhibits in Paris, 1976. So when King Tut arrived in LA 1977, I was “so what? Thats a Pharaonic Peter Frampton. I’ve already seen the OG pharaoh of all time…”

[@josephkmeyer5178]

I’m wondering if you all would ever be willing to do one on Governor George Wallace? I think his trip from moderate to the face of segregation, his presidential campaign and assassination attempt, all the way back to moderate is an interesting story. Just how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worse.

[@ChopBassMan]

That would be a good idea. I don't think that Wallace is really well known like he was when I grew up in the 1970s

[@kpounders7437]

As an Alabama gal, I'd enjoy this!

[@Matthew_Calmert]

Sounds familiar to current events

[@ocelot_gaming7607]

The battle of kedesh always struck me as odd no one really won or lost yet both claim victory ✌️

[@weedgoofy4323]

Who better to tell about Ozymandias than Heisenberg himself

[@wilt3051]

one of my fav Pharoahs and eventual Fate servants. THE SUN KING

[@59Charmer]

Wow! My great grandpa was legend

[@davidosaje4100]

Could you do a video on Clarence Kelly Johnson?

[@kasvinimuniandy4178]

his passport hehehee.. that's a nice touch.

[@victoriamero3987]

The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze! The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze, King Ramses! (The Man In Gauze) King Ramses! The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze, He's No Santa Claus! The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze, King Ramses! The Man In Gauze, The Man In Gauze He's No..SANTA CLAUS!

[@vitorpereira9515]

Ramesses II is certainly one of the most fascinating monarchs in history. A man whose name has survived the sands of time, while his monuments have fallen to ruins. He was also the inspiration for the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"

[@ibrahimsafwat]

His monuments haven’t fallen at all. There are temples with gigantic statues of him still lying around. I, may self am Egyptian and I’ve witnessed them since childhood. On the contrary, rameses the second is actually one of the few pharaohs who still behold some of the most fascinating monuments till this very day.

[@timsmith1323]

Isn’t Ozymamdias what the Greeks called him?

[@Ruosteinenknight]

@@ibrahimsafwat As far as I know, ramesses II is the most best known Pharaoh, maybe second only to Tutankhamun.

[@vitorpereira9515]

​@@ibrahimsafwatI can see that you spoke very passionately about their monuments. You are proud of your people's past, aren't you?

[@multiyapples]

Never knew about him.

[@youtubemovielover2961]

whats the track at the end of the video I really like it

[@drswag0076]

imagine being the French airport worker that saw Ramses II who didn't expect to be a dead body. two fun facts from me is that he was the villain in the Dreamworks film, The Prince of Egypt that retold the story of Moses and the Jewish exodus and may have also been the villain in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode, The Curse of King Ramses where he appeared in CGI despite the show being 2D but this was a the early 2000s so 3D design was a bit in need of polish but not in way of the 70s or 80s.

[@IooCMGooI]

christmas in may? it must be when an ancient egypt bio comes out. SHEESH

[@MrTexasDan]

So let it be written ... so let it be done.

[@txe_185__7]

I will bet my bottom dollar the dude checking the passport didnt even know lol