Dr. Peter Brand is an ancient historian and Egyptologist specializing in history and culture of ancient Egypt during its imperial age (ca. 1550–1100 BCE). He is author of The Monuments of Seti I and their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Historical and Art-Historical Analysis (Brill, 2000), and has written numerous articles on Egyptian kingship, monumental art and construction, history, popular religion, warfare, and diplomacy during the late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside period. Since 2001, Dr. Brand has served as director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, which is recording, conserving, and interpreting hundreds of scenes and hieroglyphic texts carved on the walls and columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall. Dr. Brand has appeared in over twenty documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic.
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01:35 Teaching Egyptology
08:20 How pyramids were built
12:50 Ancient Egypt through 18th Dynasty: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun
26:30 Beginning of 19th Dynasty
31:15 Seti I
35:50 Ancient Egypt’s source of wealth
38:25 Egyptian army
40:25 Ramesses II – Childhood
45:05 Prince Ramesses II
49:45 “Female Household” and wives of Ramesses II
01:04:05 Ramesses II takes the throne
01:09:55 Highlights of Ramesses II reign
01:15:05 The Battle of Kadesh
01:21:10 Interpreting Hieroglyphs
01:27:40 Pharaohs or Kings?
01:30:40 Decline of Ancient Egypt
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