That story — of people navigating catastrophe, of civilizations ending and beginning, of the profound human capacity for both destruction and resilience — is one of the most important in the ancient world.

And it is still, in the fullest sense, being told.

The Medinet Habu Reliefs: What Ramesses Left Behind

Return one more time to the walls of Medinet Habu.

They have stood for more than three thousand years, and they will stand for centuries more.

The reliefs show Ramesses III as Egypt saw itself in its greatest moments of crisis: the king, superhuman in size, towers over his enemies.

The Pharaoh draws his bow; enemies fall before him.