"sesostris iii" in lille

The exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is the result of a very successful collaboration between the museum, the University of Lille 3 and the Louvre, whose skills and collections are thus gathered around a pharaoh legendary Sesostris III (c. 1872-1854 B.C.).

If Pharaoh has no reputation or that of Tutankhamun Ramses II, it is, in the eyes of historians and archaeologists, who was at the beginning of the second millennium BCE, Egypt almighty State remained an absolute model for his successors.

Its numerous statues, representations for the most part but also bas-reliefs, whose exhibition of multiple striking examples reveal the authoritarian and ruthless person who, for his people, knew also be merciful and caring nature. Giving Egypt a restructured, leading to a new social organization administration, he was able to extend the boundaries of his empire to the north and south, leaving these new territories traces conquests perfectly orchestrated.