Sunday, November 21, 2010

MONUMENTS/STATUES!!!!!! :)

As you may know Ramses 2 built many statues and monuments.Ramses 2 wanted to build many statues/monuments because, he wanted to promote his image as a God-King!  He built a new home and town in Avaris. He built another town in Per-Atum.Ramses 2 had such a BIG family he probably had to build a new town just for them !! Ramses 2 built many temples in the province of Nubia. He built the temples on the side of the cliff of Abu Simbel. Ramses 2 built many statues and monuments at Abu Simbel. All the different things he had built there was War chariots, Waiheng/Dreamstime, first wives temple, temples, and the Cascoly Software. One of his most famous statue is the Waiheng/Dreamstime was four of his identical statues of Ramses 2. This statue was from 1279-1213 B.C.E. at Abu Simbel measured to be 65 feet in height!! I feel bad for the people who had to build those monuments and statues!! One of the temples at Abu Simbel was of Ramses 2 depicting the Egyptian Pharoah smiting his enemies. Now if you were king/queen would you want to build many statues and monuments??

1 comment:

  1. I wonder why he enjoyed making so many statues and monuments! Alot of voice and information in the is paragraph! GOOD JOB!

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