Colossi at the Ramesseum, Ramesses II's temple in Egypt: 1000-ton colossus and Young Memnon скачать в хорошем качестве

Colossi at the Ramesseum, Ramesses II's temple in Egypt: 1000-ton colossus and Young Memnon

Pictures and footage from the Ramesseum in Egypt, Ramesses II's memorial-mortuary temple in Western Thebes, Egypt, and the British Museum (should it be returned?). Ramesses II had one of the largest freestandng colossi erected here. It was famously commemorated in Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias'. Ozymandias was the name attributed to the statue in the 3rd century BC. It was a Greek version (probably) of Ramesses II's throne name User-maat-re Setenp-re. Here's the poem: By Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” The Young Memnon's upper half was brought to the British Museum in 2018. This video replaces one I made several years ago.