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3 unusual facts about Ramesses


Pi-Ramesses

Qantir was recognized as the site of the Ramesside capital Pi-Ramesses.

Excavations were therefore begun at the site of the highest Ramesside pottery location, Tell el-Dab'a and Qantir.

Ramose

A variant of the name is Ramesses; Egyptologists usually use the Ramesses variant for pharaohs and Ramose for non-royals.


Amenhirkhopshef

Amun-her-khepeshef (died c. 1200), the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari.

Henutmire

She is supposedly the third and youngest child of Seti I and Queen Tuya, and the younger sister of Ramesses II and Princess Tia.

KV 1

KV1, the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses VII in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

KV19

Tomb KV19, located in a side branch of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended as the burial place of Prince Ramesses Sethherkhepshef, better known as Pharaoh Ramesses VIII, but was later used for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepshef instead, the son of Ramesses IX, who predeceased his father.

KV4

The tomb was initiated for the burial of Ramesses XI but it is likely that its construction was abandoned and that it was never used for Ramesses's interment.

Ozymandias

Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a large fragment of a statue Ramesses II from the thirteenth-century BCE, and some scholars consider that Shelley was inspired by this.

Pebekkamen

Papyrus transcripts indicate that prior to his arrest, Pebekkamen had served as chief of the chamber to Ramesses.

Pierre Montet

After his death, Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak discovered that although Montet had discovered Pi-Ramesses stonework at Tanis, the true location of the ancient city lay some 30 km to the south.

Ramesses I

Joyce Tyldesley states that Ramesses I's tomb consisted of a single corridor and one unfinished room whose

Ramesses IX

Tomb KV19, which was one of the most beautifully decorated tombs in the royal valley, had been abandoned by Sethirkhepsef B when the latter assumed the throne as king Ramesses VIII and one of prince Montuherkhopshef's depictions there "bears the prenomen cartouche to Ramesses IX on its belt" thereby establishing the identity of this prince's father.

Takhat

Thus she was the aunt of Seti II, but since she was among the youngest children of Ramesses, it is very likely that she was the same age or even younger than Seti II who was the grandson of Ramesses.

Tanis

Many of the stones used to build the various temples at Tanis came from the old Ramesside town of Qantir (ancient Pi-Ramesses/Per-Ramesses), which caused many former generations of Egyptologists to believe that Tanis was, in fact, Per-Ramesses.

Tyti

Now, however, new scholarly research printed in the 2010 issue of JEA clearly establishes that Queen Tyti was in fact Ramesses III's wife based on certain copies of parts of the tomb robbery papyri (or Papyrus BM EA 10052)—made by Anthony Harris—which discloses confessions made by Egyptian tomb robbers who broke into Tyti's tomb and emptied it of its jewellery.


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