Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Growing Power of the Priests
readx;? Most of Egypt's land was already controlled by the Temple of Amun, which also controlled the central finances. The Cabinet www.biquge.info documents show the growing power of the High Priest of Amun. And E, the son of the priest of Amun, has been holding the important post of chief treasurer.
The papyrus records the corruption scandal of a priest during his reign, and the amount is enormous.
During his reign, the country was in turmoil.
In the year of Pharaoh's death, Libyan tribes suddenly attacked Thebes, and the 2,044 workers who were building the pharaoh's mausoleum in the Valley of the Kings had to stop the work. It shows that the central power in Egypt at that time was no longer able to ensure the safety of the workers who built the mausoleum, let alone the ordinary people.
Pharaoh fled Upper Egypt after the Libyan tribe invaded and died in Lower Egypt.
Ramses V was buried two years after his death, because Thebes, including the Valley of the Kings in the West Bank, was occupied by Libyans, and it was not until two years later that he was buried in the Valley of the Kings.
His mummy left a large scar on his head, and due to the lack of historical data, the cause of his death may have been murder or even mutiny. But in 1898, after the restoration of the mummy was completed, it was confirmed that he had smallpox on his face, which was supposed to die of disease. Therefore, it is the earliest known victim of the smallpox virus.
Its mausoleum was occupied by Ramses VI.
Ramses VI, reigned: years.
As a result of the Nubian invasion, the royal family fled Thebes and went into exile in Lower Egypt, where Ramses V died of smallpox.
Ramses V had no descendants left and the dynasty was ownerless, and many of Ramses III's sons tried to compete for the throne until Ramses VI took power with the support of the priests of Amun.
Ramses III and Isis' son, Ramses VI, seized the throne of Egypt and was the fifth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. He was the uncle of Ramses V.
After the accession of Ramses VI, the royal family was in turmoil, and Ramses Snakert, a high-ranking official and priest of the god Amun, did not build any buildings. He was the last pharaoh to mine copper in Sinai during the New Kingdom, and the Egyptian pharaohs who followed him no longer had suzerainty over Sinai.
The mausoleum of Ramses VI was originally prepared by the V for himself, but it was occupied and expanded. It may be a joint burial of uncle and nephew.
This mausoleum is the most interesting in the Valley of the Kings. The frescoes represent a kind of theological writing, in which the basic elements are the sun and its daily journey through the world in darkness (the underworld). In general, the frescoes provide the story of the origins of heaven, the earth, the sun, light and life itself. The frescoes of this mausoleum are the most complex and complete in the Valley of the Kings.
The mausoleum itself is somewhat simple, there is no real staircase, otherwise it resembles the mausoleums of other twenty dynasties. There are three passages, a four-columned hall, two corridors, a foyer, a burial chamber. A hallway is unique, the floor is sloping, and the roof is horizontal.
The corridor began to depict the god Ra of faith, followed by the god Osiris Hades. This is followed by a series of books by Gates. And then yes, the book. In the foyer there are passages from the Book of the Dead.
Soon after his funeral, his mausoleum was infiltrated and ransacked by tomb robbers, and his body was so badly damaged that the head and torso were divided into pieces by tomb robbers with axes in order to obtain his treasure.
The joint burial and the robbery of the tomb shortly after his death show that the royal power was weakened at that time, and the actual power was held by the priests of Amun, and the authority of the pharaoh was gone.
Ramses VII, reign: 7 years and 5 months.
Ramses VI's son, Ramses VII, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the sixth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.
During the reign of Ramses VII, inflation in Egypt was extremely severe, and the price of cereals tripled compared to the previous period.
He was buried in the Valley of the Kings, but his mummy was eventually missing.
Ramses VIII, reigned: years.
Ramses III and Isis' son, Ramses VIII, may have seized the throne of Egypt in the midst of Egypt's economic turmoil, and was the seventh pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. He was the uncle of Ramses V and Ramses VII, and was a contemporary of Ramses IV and Ramses VI.
He was in power for only 8 months and 13 days, and died of illness.
He was the only pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty who did not have a mausoleum in the Valley of the Kings. This may be because of the rampant crime of tomb robbing, so that they do not dare to put the mausoleum here.
Ramses IX, reigned: 18 years and 4 months.
Ramses VIII's son, Ramses IX, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the eighth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. Birthplace is in Thebes.
During the reign of Ramses IX, the high priest Amenhoteb held religious and political power in Thebes. For the first time, it shows that the clerical power has prevailed over the secular power. Ramses IX became a puppet. From then on, the pharaoh of Egypt became a vacant officer, and the actual supreme ruler was the high priest of the god Amun.
During the reign of Ramses IX, the price of grain skyrocketed due to financial difficulties. The government often did not distribute food to the workers in the cemetery for months, which led to the theft of the graves, and 16 royal and aristocratic tombs were stolen and excavated. There was a massive workers' revolt in Egypt.
The continuous attacks of two Nubian tribes in the Lower Nubia region (the area between the first and second falls of the Nile in Egypt) brought the government of the region to a complete standstill.
The mayor of Thebes was responsible for the security of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but he was negligent in his duties and even colluded with tomb robbers.
A commission sent by the Vizier in Upper Egypt investigated but did not convict him. But in the end, he was forced to resign.
During this period, Egypt still had a weak influence in parts of Pakistan.
Ramses IX died at the age of 50.
Ramses X, reigned: years.
Ramses X, the son of Ramses IX, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the ninth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.
During the reign of Ramses, the crisis in Egypt continued to deepen, and the contradictions between church and state in Egypt became even deeper. Cemetery workers are constantly on strike due to chronic food shortages.
During the reign of Ramses X, Libyan tribes frequently invaded Egypt.