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We can even look at what we can regard as the spin of the records of the battle of Qadesh in his year five, which was a draw.
例如，在他統治第五年進行的卡迭石戰役， 一般認為是他篡改歷史的證據之一。
He fought the Hittites, it was a draw.
與赫梯人戰斗打成平局。
He came back to Egypt and had the record of this battle inscribed on seven temples, and it was presented as an extraordinary success, that he alone had defeated the Hittites.
但他回到埃及之后，將這場戰爭在七座神廟分別記錄下來，并把它描述為偉大的勝利，稱自己獨自戰勝了赫梯人。
So it was all spin, and he completely understood how to use that."
這一切都是編造出來的，他極擅利用謊言。
This king would not only convince his people of his greatness, but would fix the image of imperial Egypt for the whole world.
這位國王不僅讓國民臣服于他的偉大，也為世界固化了埃及帝國的強大形象。
Later Europeans were mesmerised.
他讓歐洲人深深著迷。
Around 1800, the new aggressive powers in the Middle East, now the French and the British, competed to acquire the image of Ramesses.
十九世紀初，英法相繼侵入中東，競相爭奪拉美西斯的雕像。
Napoleon's men tried to remove the statue from the Ramesseum in 1798, but failed.
一七九八年，拿破侖的部下試圖搬走拉美西斯神殿的這座雕像，但沒有成功。
There is a hole about the size of a tennis ball drilled into the torso, just above the right breast, which experts think came from this attempt, and by 1799 the statue was broken.
雕像的右胸上部有一個網球大小的孔， 專家們認為正是這次不成功的嘗試造成的。一七九九年，雕像遭到毀壞。
In 1816 the bust was successfully removed, rather appropriately, by a circus-strong-man-turned-antiquities-dealer named Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
一八一六年，一個叫喬瓦尼巴蒂斯塔貝爾佐尼的人找到了合適的方法，成功搬運了半身像。
Using a specially designed system of hydraulics, Belzoni organised hundreds of workmen to pull the bust on wooden rollers, by ropes, to the banks of the Nile, almost exactly the method used to bring it there in the first place.
貝爾佐尼曾是馬戲團里的大力士，后改行做了古董商。他使用了一套設計獨特的水力系統，組織了數百工人，用木制滾輪與繩索將雕像運到了尼羅河岸。這幾乎與當年雕像被運到拉美西斯神殿所用的法完全一致。
It is a powerful demonstration of Ramesses' achievement, that just moving half the statue was considered a great technical feat three thousand years later.
在三千年后，運送半截雕像仍可算作巨大的技術成就，由此每見拉美西斯當年的威力。
Belzoni then loaded the bust onto a boat and the dramatic cargo went from there to Cairo, to Alexandria, and then finally to London.
貝爾佐尼把雕像運到船上，這一巨大貨物途經開羅和亞歷山大港，最后抵達倫敦。
