The Pharaonic civilization is famous for many exciting stories of kings and princes, including romantic, sad, and exciting stories. Perhaps the most famous of them is the story of the treasury of King Ramesses II.
King Ramesses II was very wealthy and had a very large amount of gold, which no king after him could surpass. For this gold, the king built a large safe in the outer wall of the palace and placed in it large baskets filled with gold.
But the engineer who built this treasury deceived the king and placed one of the stones on the outer wall of the treasury in such a way that one or two men could remove it from the wall with ease.
When death approached him, he told his two sons how he cared for them and how much they would enjoy a happy life thanks to the trick he made when he placed the stone that he had placed. It can be moved to the outer wall of King Ramesses' treasury.
After the engineer's death, his two sons went to the treasury, pulled the stone, entered it, and took quantities of the gold inside. Over time, the king noticed a shortage of gold in the treasury, but he did not suspect anyone, as the seals on the locks were intact and untouched.
When the incidents of the theft of gold were repeated, he set foot traps fixed in the ground around the gold being removed inside the treasury.
When the two brothers came and the first of them entered to feel his way, one of the traps closed on his foot.
When he realized the misfortune he had fallen into, he called his brother, warned him, and asked him to quickly enter and cut off his head.
His identity is not known and he is arrested as well. After hesitation, he surrenders and does what his brother asks, and returns sadly with his brother’s head to his home.
When daylight came and the king entered his treasury, he was terrified when he saw the headless body of the thief and was even more astonished when he did not know how he could enter the treasury without touching any of the seals.
He thought a lot about how to enter until he got tired, so he asked to place the body on the palace wall and set up guards near it to arrest anyone they saw. He cries for it or tries to take it.
The thief’s mother cried in grief for her son and asked his brother to go get his brother’s body and bury it with his head until the soul came out of him.
She threatened him that if he did not do that, she would go to the king and report him. The boy thought a lot and a clever trick came to his mind. He prepared his donkeys and carried them with wine.
Then he drove it in front of him, and when he passed by the guards, he hit the donkeys and they dispersed. He loosened some of the containers and spilled wine from them.
He started screaming and banging his head as if he was confused about which donkey to go to. When the guards saw the wine flowing abundantly, they rushed with jugs to scoop up the spilled wine, taking advantage of what had happened.
As for him, he feigned anger at the guards who began to calm him down. One of them even joked with him, so he feigned complacency and gave them one of the wineskins, which they drank immediately, then gave them another one.
Thus, when they reached the limit of ecstasy and fell asleep, he stole his brother’s body without them realizing it and returned it to his mother.
The news of the theft of the body reached the king, and he became extremely angry.
He announced that he was asking his daughter to accept a marriage without any discrimination from the person who was telling her about the most devious and heinous acts that he had committed in his life, without fearing for himself punishment, in a dark room, holding her hand. He asked to marry her.
He told her: If someone tells you about the person who stole the safe, you should catch him and ask the guards to arrest him. This was a trick on the part of the king.
When the thief heard this announcement, he realized that it was a trick on the part of the king, so he decided to outwit him with another trick, so he took a wooden hand that he covered with cloth and came to the king’s daughter’s room and made her hold this fake hand, and told her how he had stolen the safe, and then she grabbed what she thought was his hand and screamed for the guards. It was The boy who had escaped in the dark.
The king realized from what had happened that he was facing a boy with extreme intelligence worthy of admiration, so he sent a message to all the cities announcing his exemption from any punishment and promising him that his daughter would agree to marry him, as a reward for his intelligence.