Ramses the great biography documentaries

In the annals of Egypt’s ancient past, few rulers stand taller than Ramses II. Yet the long memory of history has not always been kind to Ramses the Great.

Inspired by a statue fragment of the ancient king known as the Young Memnon, depicting Ramses’s head and torso, English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote 'Ozymandias' in 1818, which would become his most famous work. What he saw in the statue reflected the popular perspective of Ramses II in much of the world since then: as debris in the desert, a relic of the past, little more than a cautionary tale against the arrogance and shortsightedness that the once-great pharaoh embodies.

This picture of Ramses is particularly emphasised in artwork across the ages, particularly those that attempt to recreate the religious account of the Exodus.

The 1956 film 'The Ten Commandments' and the 2014 film  'Exodus: Gods and Kings' both depict Ramses II as the cruel