Ramses - Beloved of the Gods

From the back of the video:
No Other Pharoah rules the lands of the Nile longer than him, and none reached such a Biblical old age. It was only after 67 years on the throne, at the age of 90, that Ramses shuttled off this mortal coil, and, according to the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, became one with his Creator and God of the Sun. His legacy was and is mighty, in many respects: he caused more temples and structures to be erected than any other Pharoah before him, and he left countless inscriptions in which his name was honoured. Five thousand years ago his country was probably the richest on earth.
Mighty war leader, far-sighted politician, skilled diplomat, a giant among builders, father a hundred times over, and lord of a harem truly fit for a king - all these epithets still hardly do justice to Ramses the Great, colossus of the throne of Egypt. In many respects, Ramses was a Pharoah of superlatives. LOST CIVILIZATIONS asks whether Ramses could justifiably be called the "Beloved of the Gods".
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Around 1995 Time Life's Lost Civilizations were released on video, there were intially 10 episodes which are listed on imdb here: www.imdb.com/t...
These first 10 episodes are public domain and have been uploaded by Time Life here:
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These are readily available on VHS, there are always tapes of them selling for a few quid. But while browsing for them I stumbled across 14 further episodes. Now it's taken nearly 10 years for me to get all of them. The episodes I have now transferred for this channel are The Huns (7940111), Hannibal (7940112), The Vikings (7940113), Crete (7940114), Alexander the Great (7940115), Cleopatra (7940116), Nero (7940117), Ramses (7940118), Charlemagne (7940119), Richard the Lionheart (7940120), The Phoenicians (7940121), China's First Emperor (7940122), Akhenaten and Nefertit (7940123) and Nebuchadnezzar (7940124). The numbers in brackets refer to the code on the spine. These tapes do not have barcodes / ISBN numbers. Episodes of Lost Voices will follow at a later date.
I've used a JVC D560 with nicam bass boost on a few tapes and a Toshiba DVD-R recorder to transfer them to DVD. A couple of them have audio dropouts near the start and the odd flicker. If better versions become available I will replace them.

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This was fantastic, thank you for uploading!