Begotten by the sun god. The "last great pharaoh," RAMESSES (aka Ramesses III) is a warrior and a builder. In Total War: Pharaoh, you will lead this man to victory over his rivals, and remake Egypt in your image…

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Select Bibliography:

D. D. Baker, Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300 - 1069 BC (2008).

E. H. Cline and D. O’Connor (eds), Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt’s Last Hero (2012).

A. Dodson, Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty (2016).

A. Dodson, Ramesses III King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife (2019).

A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004).

D. Kahn, ‘Ramesses III and the Northern Levant: A Reassessment of the Sources’, in S. Kubisch and U. Rummel (eds), The Ramesside Period in Egypt: Studies into Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties (2018), 175—188.

K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume V: Setnakht, Ramesses III, & Contemporaries (2008).

R. J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (2013).

C. J. Moreu, ‘The Sea Peoples and the Historical Background of the Trojan War’, Mediterranean Archaeology 16 (2003), 107–24.

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