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.  GET THE BOOK - Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh: https://amzn.to/3RufmMS   SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast 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