1213 BC - Ramesses II (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ramesses II item item Nomen: Ramesses meryamun Ramesses (R has fashioned him), beloved of Amun . item item item item Horus name: Kanakht Merymaa The strong bull, beloved of right, truth. item item item Nebty name: Mekkemetwafkhasut Protector of Egypt who curbs foreign lands. item item item item Golden Horus: Userrenput-aanehktu Rich in years, great in victories. item item item item Consort(s): Henutmire, Isetnofret, Nefertari, Maathorneferure item Children: Khaemweset Merneptah Amun-her-khepsef Meritamen List of children of Ramesses II item Father: Seti I item Mother: Queen Tuya item Born: c. 1300s BC item Died: 1213 BC item Burial: KV7 item Monuments: Abu Simbel, Abydos, Ramesseum, Luxor and Karnak temples Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses *Ri m sisu; also known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses' throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re ) was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty . He is often regarded as Egypt 's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor."He was born around 1303 BC and at age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I . He is believed to have taken the throne in his early 20s and to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC for a total of 66 years and 2 month...