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Tomb wall depicting Nefertari A ram headed amulet dating to c.1254 BC during the reign of Ramesses II found in the Serapeum of Saqqara. Gold, cloisonné, glass and turquoise pectoral bearing the cartouche or royal name of Ramesses II. The tomb of the most important consort of Ramesses was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1904.
Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty. It is located in the Valley of the Kings opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5 , and near to the tomb of his son and successor Merenptah , KV8 .
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor.
The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses wearing a double crown and a headdress topped with a royal cobra, Bassem Jihad, head of the mission's Egyptian ...
Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.
The statue of Ramses the Great at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel is reassembled after having been moved in 1967 to save it from flooding. In 1959, an international donations campaign to save the monuments of Nubia began: the southernmost relics of this ancient civilization were under threat from the rising waters of the Nile that were about to ...
Ramses II is one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs. Also known as Ramses the Great, he was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1279 to 1213 B.C.
Statue of Ramesses II in the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum during construction (November 2019) A replica of the Ramesses II statue stands on Orouba street in Heliopolis, Cairo. The Statue of Ramesses II is a colossal 3,200-year-old figure of Ramesses II, depicting him standing.