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Mummy of Ramesses II. The pharaoh's mummy reveals an aquiline nose and strong jaw. It stands at about 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in). [90] Gaston Maspero, who first unwrapped the mummy of Ramesses II, writes, "on the temples there are a few sparse hairs, but at the poll the hair is quite thick, forming smooth, straight locks about five centimeters in ...
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.
Mummy found in the tomb of Psusennes I 1940. His mummy show signs of water damage, meaning that original tomb may have been inundated by the Nile which compelled a reburial of this king in Psusennes I's tomb. [25] Ramesses I: Ramses 1290 BC 19th Male 1817 [26] [27] Ramesses II: Ramesses the Great 1213 BC 19th Male 1881 Ramesses III
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.
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.
After the tomb was almost broken into, as depicted in the Strike Papyrus of the 29th year of Ramesses III, Ramesses II's mummy was moved to the tomb of his father Seti I, then to the mummy cache in DB320. [14] Tourists during the Third Intermediate and Roman periods left "abundant quantities" of potsherds in the burial chamber and nearby ...
The Younger Memnon is an Ancient Egyptian statue, one of two colossal granite statues from the Ramesseum mortuary temple in Thebes, Upper Egypt.It depicts the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II wearing the Nemes head-dress with a cobra diadem on top.