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A Pharaoh to Remember
Riding into battle with his pet lion often by his side, Ramses II slew enemies by the score and won great battles almost single-handedly—or at least that’s the story he wanted to leave behind. The truth was certainly more modest, but a modest man does not stud the landscape with dozens of colossal statues of himself like this one at the main temple entrance at Luxor.
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett
2000, previously unpublished in NGM
From Treasures of Egypt, 2003
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