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Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the sixth pharaoh of the 20th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC [1] and was the son of Ramesses VI. Other dates for his reign are 1138–1131 BC. [2]
Tomb KV7 was the tomb of Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"), an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Nineteenth Dynasty. It is located in the Valley of the Kings opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5 , and near to the tomb of his son and successor Merenptah , KV8 .
Carved wall reliefs of Ramessess VII's KV1 tomb Though not documented, the tomb was cleared in the 1950s. Starting in 1983, funded by the Royal Ontario Museum , Edwin Brock thoroughly excavated the burial chamber floor, followed a decade later by an excavation of the tomb's entrance. [ 2 ]
The Book primarily appears on the tombs of Merneptah, Twosret, Ramesses III, Ramesses VI, and Ramesses VII and serves as a counterpart to the Book of Caverns. [ 2 ] The central figures in the story are Osiris , Ra and Ba , while the overarching plot is the journey the sun takes through the earth god, Aker .
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor.
The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses wearing a double crown and a headdress topped with a royal cobra, Bassem Jihad, head of the mission's Egyptian ...
Tomb KV9 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI , later reused the tomb as his own. The architectural layout is typical of the 20th Dynasty – the Ramesside period – and is much simpler than that of Ramesses III 's tomb ( KV11 ).
The tomb was likely used as a dwelling by Coptic monks, [3] and there are also depictions of Coptic saints and crosses on the tomb's walls. [ 6 ] Early European visitors to the area included Richard Pococke , who may have visited KV2 and designated it "Tomb B" in his Observations of Egypt , published in 1743.