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Ramses the Great's Colossal Statues: Power in Stone
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Ramses the Great's colossal statues — not just as art, but as tools of power, propaganda, and religious authority. They discuss the famous fallen colossus at the Ramesseum that inspired Shelley's 'Ozymandias', the 66-foot seated statues at Abu Simbel, and the many smaller colossi that lined temples and cities across Egypt. The conversation covers the symbolic meaning of the statues' size and placement, the logistics of carving and transporting gigantic granite blocks from Aswan, and how these monuments were meant to project…
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