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The existence of the city as Egypt's capital as late as the 10th century BCE makes problematic the claim that the reference to Ramesses in the Exodus story is a memory of the era of Ramesses II; in fact, it has been claimed that the shortened form "Ramesses", in place of the original Pi-Ramesses, is first found in 1st millennium BCE texts, [3 ...
c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC—Temple of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel in Nubia (19th Dynasty) is built. The wall painting of Queen Nefertari making an offering to the god Isis in the tomb of Nefertari is made. The tomb is located in the Valley of the Queens in Egypt. c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC—Temple of Amun, Mut and Khons at Luxor are built.
One of the greatest construction projects conducted by Ramesses was the city of Pi-Ramesses. The city covered an area of 18 km 2 (as big as Rome). At its peak, The city was home to a population of 160,000-300,000. This would make Pi-Ramesses 2-4 times bigger than Yinxu (Second largest city at that time). Ramesses led his army against the ...
Articles relating to the city of Pi-Ramesses, the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC) at Qantir, near the old site of Avaris. Pages in category "Pi-Ramesses"
The article has this sentence: "Avaris was abandoned after the Hyksos expulsion throughout most of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the capital moved back to Thebes in the Nile valley; the Nineteenth dynasty ruler Ramesses II moved the capital back to the Delta, building a new city, Pi-Ramesses, immediately adjacent to the remains of Avaris."
Pi-Ramesses (7 P) W. Wives of Ramesses II (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Ramesses II" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
They defended against the Sea Peoples and helped Egypt recover. However, Egypt's economy suffered from the loss of trade routes to the Near East. By the time the New Kingdom ended with Ramesses XI, Egypt was very different from the time of Ramesses the Great. It is worth noting that some of Egypt's contemporaries, such as the Hittites and ...
Montet believed that his excavations at Tanis had uncovered Pi-Ramesses. After his death, Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak discovered that although Montet had discovered Pi-Ramesses stonework at Tanis, the true location of the ancient city lay some 30 km to the south. Montet can be credited, however, as the discoverer of the "transplanted ...