It might seem to us that the ancient Egyptians were a strange lot. They spent a lot of their time thinking about death. They weren’t a solemn or unhappy people though. They believed that when they died they would live on in an afterlife. During their lives they prepared their own tomb, making sure it contained everything they would need in the afterlife.
Thanks to these beliefs and the fact that many of the tombs were underground, a lot have survived. Even though tombs are all about death, they provide us with a lot of knowledge about the way ancient Egyptians lived.
The ancient Egyptians lived around three thousand years ago. I find it fascinating that we know so much detail about life so long ago.
Ramose was a real person. His father, Pharaoh Tuthmosis I, lived from 1504–1492 BCE. Some historians believe that his “chief” wife bore him three sons who all died before the pharaoh. A son of a lesser wife therefore became the next pharaoh. No one knows what happened to Ramose and his brothers. I thought it would be interesting to imagine the reasons for the early deaths of the princes. That is how the Ramose stories came about.