Ramesses

Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses" or "Rameses") is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Re".

Related Topics:
Egyptian - Pharaoh - New Kingdom - Re

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:19th Dynasty

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• Ramesses I - founder of the 19th Dynasty
• Ramesses II ("the Great")

:20th Dynasty

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• Ramesses III - adversary of the Sea Peoples
• Ramesses IV
• Ramesses V
• Ramesses VI
• Ramesses VII
• Ramesses VIII
• Ramesses IX
• Ramesses X
• Ramesses XI - last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom period

Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses is also the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris.

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