Ramesside Inscriptions: Ramesses I, Sethos I and Contemporaries v. 1

In the long history of pharaonic Egypt, the most documented period of her higher culture is that of the New Kingdom (18th to 20th Dynasties), c. 1550-1085 BC, when Egypt was one of the leading powers in the then civilized world. After the first climax of achievement that ended with the failure of the politico-religious innovations of Akhenaten, it was the Ramesside kings of the 19th and 20th Dynasties who sought to restore and to maintain Egypt's power and integrity in the radically-changing world of the 13th and 12th centuries BC. Kenneth A. Kitchen has produced this edition of the hieroglyphic texts from temples, stelae and other monuments of this age, which constitute a valuable source for the history and civilization of this epoch. This volume is the first of Professor Kitchen's notes and comments on the inscriptions themselves. A parallel volume of translations is also available.