观点 直面死亡，选择我们将如何死去.doc

观点 直面死亡，选择我们将如何死去
拉美西斯二世的木乃伊。Tony Comiti/Sygma,
(本文为时报观点文章，作者是约翰·卡赫和克兰西·马丁)Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, was born about 3,000 years ago and is widely regarded as the most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. The Greeks called him Ozymandias. When he died in 1213 ., he left a series of temples and palaces that stretched from Syria to Libya, and countless statues and monuments commemorating his impressive reign. By the 19th century, when European colonization reached Egypt, most of these statues were gone, and the ones that remained were in ruin. In 1816, the Italian archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni discovered a bust of Ramses and acquired it for the British Museum. This is when Ozymandias’s life, in one respect, truly began.