![]() ![]() In despair over Cleopatra’s death, Ramses then went into a deep sleep for nineteen centuries, only to be woken by an Egyptologist just prior to World War I. She had herself refused the elixir when Ramses had previously offered it to her. ![]() ![]() He and Cleopatra had been friends and he had been her advisor, but when she begged him to give the elixir to Marc Antony, Ramses refused, and then when Antony died, she killed herself. Actually, we find out that long ago he had obtained an elixir of immortality from a Hittite priestess and had never died but lived for approximately twelve centuries, from roughly 1200 BC to 1 A.D., spanning the time from his own reign to that of the celebrated Cleopatra. In the previous novel, Ramses II was the mummy who came back to life. Warning that if you haven’t yet read Ramses the Damned, there may be some spoilers in my discussion. Ramses the Damned, sequel to Anne Rice’s The Mummy
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