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‘The Donald Trump of ancient Egypt’: Ramses II’s ego is on full display in new exhibition

International EN 02 Mar 2026, 17:13 Source: The Guardian

A collection of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadowThe mummy of Egypt’s most ambitious pharaoh, Ramses II (often spelt Ramesses), is a masterpiece of the embalmer’...

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