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Ancient Egypt the year is 1270 BC or thereabouts.
We're in the palace of the great Pharaoh Ramesses ii.
Ramesses is a warrior king, the kind.
Of leader who rides into battle at the head of his armies.
Just four years earlier, he led a campaign against the neighboring Hittite empire.
The fighting at the Battle of Kadesh, as it became known, was ferocious.
Both sides fielded huge numbers of chariots and infantry.