Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Decline of the Ramesses Dynasty

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These difficult realities were completely ignored by Ramses III, who continued to build a large number of buildings as Ramses II, and maintained the same style as Ramses II's architecture. Its representative building is the Medina Habu Temple.

years, due to the poverty of the inhabitants and the separatist intentions of the aristocracy, the state continued to decline. To maintain the unity of the country, the pharaoh needed the support of the priestly class and had to pay large donations to the temple.

In April, Pharaoh herself died in a court murder orchestrated by Queen Tia, motivated by a desire to seize the throne for her son. At that time Pharaoh was more inclined to Ramses IV, son of his other wife, Iset.

Many powerful figures of the time were involved in the assassination plot, including Queen Tia and her son, chief steward of Ramses III, custodian of the royal estate, two treasurers, two generals of the army, and two ministers.

The pharaoh's own mummy had an excessive amount of bandages around his neck, and a CT scan revealed a deep knife wound in the throat inside the bandage, reaching deep into the vertebrae. No one survived such a wound, indicating that they had indeed died of murder.

Ramses III had many sons, and the politics of the later twentieth dynasty mainly revolved over the succession of his sons. And all the sons vied with each other to curry favor with Priest Amun in order to win foreign aid, which also indirectly led to the increasing popularity of Priest Amun.

Ramses III was buried in the Valley of the Kings after his death, and his mausoleum is the largest of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Ramses IV, reigned: years.

Ramses IV's name before his accession to the throne was: He was the fifth son of Ramses III, and in the twenty-second year of his reign, he was made prince because all four of his brothers had died.

But since he was not the son of Queen Tia, Queen Tia staged a coup d'état and killed Ramses III, but this coup was not successful.

Ramses IV, as the heir to the pharaoh, successfully won the support of many ministers and took the throne of Egypt, becoming the third pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. Ramses IV was already 40 years old at this time. His queen was > 38 people, including Tia, were arrested and tried, all of whom were sentenced to death, burned at the stake, and burned to ashes, and the interrogation records were found in modern times. Such a punishment is a powerful example, because it emphasizes the felony of treason. The ancient Egyptians believed that a person's body could be resurrected in the afterlife if it was mummified and preserved, and that burning at the stake without leaving a body was the most severe punishment.

In other words, not only will the criminals die in the physical world, but they will not have the opportunity to live in another world, thus completing the total destruction of the individual.

Of course, some of them, including Queen Tia and chose to commit suicide by poisoning. By committing suicide, they can avoid harsher punishments, so that they can keep the mummy and the possibility of resurrection in the afterlife. In reality, however, the names of Tia and her son were erased from the relevant records. This may be the custom of the coup d'état, or it may be an expression of the anger of those in power.

Because there are women in the harem who participated in the coup d'état and tried to seduce the judge in exchange for a light sentence. But the judge who fornicated with the harem woman was severely punished.

During the reign of Ramses IV, construction was carried out on a scale comparable to that of Ramses II.

During the first four years of his reign, Ramses IV sent expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula four times to develop turquoise.

The large stele at Hammamet records one of the largest expeditions, dated on the 27th day of the harvest season in the third month of the third year of the reign of Ramses IV, with a force of 8,368 men (including 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 monks of the Temple of Amun, 800 Habiru (then the Egyptian term for a nomadic people), and 130 stonemasons and quarrymen), personally commanded by the High Priest of Amun, Rames Naikt. The scribes of the time did their best to keep accurate records of the number of people, but did not count the 900 who died on the expedition, so when the 900 men were added to the original number, it is revealed that the number of dead was one-tenth of the total, indicating that the Egyptian quarrying expedition was very difficult. Some of the stones from Hammamet to the Nile (a distance of 60 miles) weigh 40 tonnes or more. Other Egyptian quarries, such as Asven, are closer to the Nile, and workers can use large flat-bottomed boats to transport stones for long distances.

Ramses IV doubled the number of staff working in del Medina to 120 per team.

He also sent a large expansion of his father's temple of Khonsu at Karnak and built a large funerary temple near the Hatshepsut funerary temple.

Despite the devotion of Ramses IV to the worship of gods such as Osiris, and the inscription on a stone tablet in Abydos that you grant me a long life and peace (as you gave me to my ancestors), Ramses IV's reign was short-lived. The king did not live long enough to accomplish his ambitious goals.

Ramses IV died six-and-a-half years after his reign and his body was buried in the Valley of the Kings. His mummy was found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, possibly because he migrated there to avoid tomb robbers. From the mummy, it is known that he is a long-haired, long-nosed, and short man.

Pharaoh Ramses IV was the last pharaoh to carry out large-scale construction during the New Kingdom.

Ramses V, reigned: years.

Ramses IV and the queen's son Ramses V succeeded to the throne of Egypt and became the fourth pharaoh of Egypt.

During the reign of Ramses V, he continued to complete the construction work that his father had not completed.

During the reign of Ramses V, the power of the priests of Amun grew. They controlled much of the land and intervened in the finances through Pharaoh's sons and subordinates. Ramses V continued to build his father's unfinished Great Temple in West Thebesdal Bahry.