PHARAOH

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Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses *Riʕmīsisu) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypt's greatest and most powerful pharaoh[1]. He was born ca. 1302 BC. At age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I[2]. He is believed to have taken the throne in his early 20s and . . .