He was young, arrogant, and walking into a trap. When Pharaoh Ramses II led his army to face the Hittites at Kadesh, he ...
After a lifetime of conquest and building, the great Pharaoh Ramses II faced a loss no army could defeat. The death of his ...
The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor, stand ...
Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypts greatest and most ...