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Hello and welcome to a history of Egypt podcast interview.

My guest today is Professor Peter Brand, who returns to the show to explore more aspects of the reign of Ramesses II.

In this episode, we discuss the later wars that this king undertook in Canaan and Syria, and then his monumental peace treaty

with the Hittite Empire.

It's a lovely discussion.

I hope you enjoy.

Good morning, Professor Brand.

Welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast for another conversation about Ramesses.

How are you today?

Good morning.

It's nice to see you again.

It's been about a week since we did our epic conversation on the Battle of Kadesh. And today we're

going to move more into the aftermath of that and the diplomatic, geostrategic context of what comes later.

In terms of the aftermath of Kadesh, last time we left off with your observation that

when you really break it down, the outcomes are not as dramatic as Remus's propaganda would

imply.

And you described it as, in your words, a nothing burger in terms of how it really changes

the Syrian-Kananite situation.

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