![]() So he sent for his Master Builder, Horemheb, and said to him, 'Build me a mighty treasure house of the hewn stone of Syene make the floor of solid rock and the walls so thick that no man may pick a hole in them and rear high the roof with stone into a tall pyramid so that no entrance may be broken through that either.' Rameses gathered his treasures together in the form of gold and silver and precious stones - and the more he gathered the more anxious he became lest anyone should steal his hoards. Early in his reign he defeated invasions from both Palestine and Libya but after this he lived at peace with his neighbours and encouraged trading to such an extent that he became the richest of all the Pharaohs. Rameses the Third, the Pharaoh who, when he first came to the throne, wished to marry Helen of Troy, ruled for many years and Egypt grew prosperous under him. Home :: the Myths :: The Treasure Thief The Treasure Thief ![]()
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