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Oct 2023
35m 25s

Total War: Pharaoh - Ramesses, Hero of E...

DOMINIC PERRY
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Begotten by the sun god. The "last great pharaoh," RAMESSES (aka Ramesses III) is a warrior and a builder. In Total War: Pharaoh, you will lead this man to victory over his rivals, and remake Egypt in your image…


Select Bibliography:

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  • A. Dodson, Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty (2016).
  • A. Dodson, Ramesses III King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife (2019).
  • A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004).
  • D. Kahn, ‘Ramesses III and the Northern Levant: A Reassessment of the Sources’, in S. Kubisch and U. Rummel (eds), The Ramesside Period in Egypt: Studies into Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties (2018), 175—188.
  • K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume V: Setnakht, Ramesses III, & Contemporaries (2008).
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  • C. J. Moreu, ‘The Sea Peoples and the Historical Background of the Trojan War’, Mediterranean Archaeology 16 (2003), 107–24.

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