LED and Ramses II in 1303 BC and ruled Egypt for 67 years from 1279 BC. M. Until 1213 BC. M. Rose to power in his early twenties. By the thought that he lived until he became 99 years old, but he's mostly died in the early Tsainath. Book the ancient Greeks (such as Herodotus) attributed his accomplishments to the semi-legendary King Sizaustric.
life
Ramses II was the son of Seti I, king of Egypt, Queen Tuya, his wife Queen Nefertari, the property is beloved to him, and had a number of secondary wives including his wife, Isis and Maat Nofret spirit of Hatshepsut, the Princess Haty. The number of children, about 90 daughter and a son whom: Bntanat Merritt and security, Stnacht. مرنپتاح Prince and his sons, who succeeded his father as king on the throne of Egypt. Finally, Prince Khaamost which restored the effects of ancestral
His names
Like most of the kings of the Egyptians, it was Ramses several names. Most two of them: the royal name and its original name in hieroglyphs show up to the left. And those names written in Arabic as follows: walk GTI Re - Step to Re, the second name: Ra draft - Meri Amon, meaning: "Strong Re, Maat, selected from Ra, which means the second name in Arabic: the spirit of Ra, Beloved of Amun." Recital in the version of the peace treaty with the above-mentioned Hatossells III, that the king's name appears as follows: The Hmoreet شتپنرع Ramch Miomn
His military career
Led by Ramses II, a number of campaigns in the north to the Levant, and in the Battle of Kadesh the second in the fourth year of his reign (1274 BC. M.), The Egyptian forces under his command together with the forces Muatales king of the Hittites lasted for fifteen years, but none of the parties defeat the other party. Accordingly, in the atheist year of his reign (1258 BC. M.), Concluded a treaty with Ramses II Hatossells III, the oldest peace treaty in history.
Led by Ramses II, also several campaigns south of the First Cataract to Nubia, was established by Ramesses the city (Bur Ramis) in the eastern Delta, which he conducted his battles with the Hittites has some that have been taken by the new capital of the country and this of course is not true has been the capital of the country a valuable place valuable good The greatest is left of the temples and monuments left her there
Death
The burial of King Ramses II in Valley of the Kings in the tomb kv7, but the mummy was transferred to Treasury mummies at Deir el-Bahri, where it was discovered in 1881 by Gaston Maspero and transferred to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, after five years, it was Ramses height stature 170 cm, and medical tests on mummy show the effects of red hair or pigments, and believed that he suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis in recent years-old, also suffered from diseases of the gums
Statue of Ramses II
The statue of Ramses II in the early fifties and the development of several months the squares of Cairo (in the iron gate) has changed its name to Ramses Square in September 2005 he was transferred from the arena's famous located in central Cairo in front of the railway station and placed in the pyramids area in Giza Governorate for repairs it for one year and until the completion of the new Egyptian Museum
