Explorer #24: Ramesses II "The Great" and 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt w/ Peter Brand

Dr. Peter Brand is an ancient historian and Egyptologist specializing in history and culture of ancient Egypt during its imperial age (ca. 1550–1100 BCE). He is author of The Monuments of Seti I and their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Historical and Art-Historical Analysis (Brill, 2000), and has written numerous articles on Egyptian kingship, monumental art and construction, history, popular religion, warfare, and diplomacy during the late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside period. Since 2001, Dr. Brand has served as director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, which is recording, conserving, and interpreting hundreds of scenes and hieroglyphic texts carved on the walls and columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall. Dr. Brand has appeared in over twenty documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. 

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TIMESTAMPS 

01:35 Teaching Egyptology 

08:20 How pyramids were built 

12:50 Ancient Egypt through 18th Dynasty: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun 

26:30 Beginning of 19th Dynasty 

31:15 Seti I 

35:50 Ancient Egypt’s source of wealth 

38:25 Egyptian army 

40:25 Ramesses II – Childhood 

45:05 Prince Ramesses II 

49:45 “Female Household” and wives of Ramesses II 

01:04:05 Ramesses II takes the throne 

01:09:55 Highlights of Ramesses II reign 

01:15:05 The Battle of Kadesh 

01:21:10 Interpreting Hieroglyphs 

01:27:40 Pharaohs or Kings? 

01:30:40 Decline of Ancient Egypt