Ramesses II

Ramesses II In my essay i will be talking about Ramesses II about his early life, military leadership and also his weaknesses and strengths throughout the time he lived as pharaoh. Ramesses II was the third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. He ruled from 1279 to 1213 BC. he was known as a extremely famous ruler. The egyptian people loved prosperity. He was also noted as Ozymandias. He declared that he was successful in the determining win over the hittites during the war of kadesh, he used this to strengthen his character as a great fighter. Ramesses lived to be 96 years old he had over more than 200 wives and mistresses he also had 96 sons and daughters which he lived longer than them. He was the son of Seti I and Queen Tuya he would also go with his dad on military sources.…

2017a) in Egypt, Statue of Ramesses II was made, it is a stone monumental statue of the head and upper body of the ruler Ramesses with only the head and the upper body. It was found in Africa, specifically in Thebes, Egypt (BBC, 2014a), also known as Upper Egypt or Ramesseum (The British Museum, 2017a) in the past. The statue was made with different colors, which are the two shades of brown (light and dark) and grey. Furthermore, red granite and granodiorite (The British Museum, 2017a) were…

This goal of this paper is to critically assess the Battle of Kadesh through the analysis of both primary texts, relief carvings, and secondary analysis by scholars. The Battle of Kadesh is by and large considered to be a stalemate for the Hittites and the Egyptians, as no territory was gained or lost. However, the reliefs and texts that were created six times on the sides of temples reveal a celebration of Ramesses II’s victory over the Hittites despite the battle being near disastrous for the…

Due to the peace treaty, the rest of Ramesses II’s reign was devoted to both building and honouring the gods. However, it is clear by the sheer amount of temples Ramesses constructed during his reign that he believed that the construction of temples was a significant part of his duty to become a successful pharaoh. Hurley, Medcalf, Murrary, and Rolph hypothesis that temples were a vital part of the efficient functioning of a country as they supplied a permanent source of revenue for Egypt. This…

politically or economically, the pharaoh’s death tended to be brutal. Vernus, suggests that the main reason why Ramesses III was assassinated in 1155BC was due to jealousy within the harem, causing conspiracy in the court. This view is refuted by Grimal , arguing that Ramesses III reorganised land allocations which gave more land to the temples rather than to the people, causing agricultural land to be wasted. The economic focus is plausible as during the reign of Ramesses III in 1186-1155BC,…

The poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelly is about an Egyptian king, Ozymandias. Ozymandias’ real name is King Ramesses II; he is known as Ozymandias by the Greeks. Percy Bysshe Shelly hears about a finding of Ozymandias’ statue near his funeral temple and this basically motivates him to write this poem. The statue is completely demolished, leaving only a few pieces from the statue on the ground and there is no other form of life near it. Percy Bysshe Shelly basically describes what is at and…

dynasty, Horemheb, Ramesses II, Seti I and Ramesses II, re-established the return and worship of the traditional gods for a political purpose, ensuring control of the Egyptian empire. In the effort to remove all previous mentions of the Aten, the following pharaoh’s destroyed all mentions of Akhenaten to the pharaohs before Horemheb. Horemheb continued to remove the empire from Atenism shown on a Pylon at the Temple of Amun. The temple complex is dedicated to Amun, in the form of Amun-Re.…

The story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt has been told numerous times through various media, including film. Without fail, Ramesses II is almost always portrayed as the unnamed pharaoh of the Exodus. He is often regarded as Egypt’s greatest and most powerful pharaoh. Born in 1302 BC, he was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is the second child of Seti I and Queen Tuya, and his only known sibling is Princess Tia. At fourteen years old, Ramesses was appointed…

The great temple of Amun contains six royal tombs, only three of which were found in good condition. A large portion of the tomb, along with 15 monuments date back to Ramesses II, while the gate of the shrine dates back to Shoshenq III (835-783 B.C.E). Attached to the Amun temple was another temple that was exclusive to the god Horus, with extra chapels for Mut, Amun’s wife and Khonsu, their child. These three formed the Tanite Triad. Some scholars label Tanis as the “Northern Thebes”, because…

Gold of the Pharaohs is an in-depth analysis of the site of Tanis, located in the Egyptian delta; discussing this late seat of power of Ramesses II. It attempts to examine the site of San el-Hagar as a match for the location of the ‘lost city of Tanis’. Whilst not very well known in common communal thought, except for its’ use in Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark; Tanis has yielded some of the greatest archaeological treasures within the history of Egyptology. Tanis was the capital of Egypt…