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TWO COLOSSI 01^ RAMESES II IN THE TEMPLE O^ LUXOR : LUXOR 



Up and down Egypt, at almost every temple, can be found some evidence of the activity 

 of Rameses II, and his portrait statues are innumerable. He seems to have been a character 

 of whom the Egyptologist gets a little tired. Writing about him, Mr. Baikie says : "When 

 Rameses II laid hands upon a building, it was not to complete another's work and give the 

 glory to the man who really deserved it ; it was to steal the work of better men than himself 

 and to batter his own eternal cartouche in upon their inscriptions, regardless of the truth. 

 The most valuable records have been ruthlessly falsified by being appropriated to the vain- 

 glory of that sublime egoist." 



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