Versunkene Metropolen, Part 1 - Piramesse
- Episode aired Jun 24, 2007
Piramesse was Pharaoh Rames II the Great's new capital at the Nile, called 'house of the son of Ra', peopled by some 100,000 subjects and littered with glorious monuments, but quickly fell i... Read allPiramesse was Pharaoh Rames II the Great's new capital at the Nile, called 'house of the son of Ra', peopled by some 100,000 subjects and littered with glorious monuments, but quickly fell in total disuse after his over 60 year long reign, even its site was forgotten and covered ... Read allPiramesse was Pharaoh Rames II the Great's new capital at the Nile, called 'house of the son of Ra', peopled by some 100,000 subjects and littered with glorious monuments, but quickly fell in total disuse after his over 60 year long reign, even its site was forgotten and covered by the moving Nile delta. In the 1920s, the French archaeologist Pierre Montet's diggings ... Read all