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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 ...
Map of Lower Egypt showing Avaris, near Qantir/Pi-Ramesses. Qantir (Arabic: قنتير, romanized: Qantīr) is a village in Egypt. [1] Qantir is believed to mark what was probably the ancient site of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II's capital, Pi-Ramesses or Per-Ramesses ("House or Domain of Ramesses").
Henning Franzmeier is a German archaeologist and Egyptologist with the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim and University College London (UCL).Taking over from Edgar B. Pusch he has been field director of the "Qantir-Piramesse Project" [1] [2] in Egypt's Nile Delta since 2015, where Pi-Ramesses, the capital of Ramesside Egypt is being unearthed.
Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.
Mummy of Ramses III, pharaoh whose throat was slit during a conspiracy. In ancient Egypt, there is evidence of conspiracies within the royal palace to put the reigning monarch to death. Texts are generally silent on the subject of struggles for influence, but a few historical sources, either indirect or very eloquent, depict a royal family ...
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"
c. 1279 BC—Ramesses II (19th Dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Egypt. During his reign he builds a new capital on the eastern Nile Delta which he, renames Pi-Ramesses – the "House of Ramesses". The capital is created as a center of Egyptian power in the North. c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC—Temple of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel in Nubia (19th
Egyptian Chinese University: ECU: 2016 [47] Egyptian e-Learning University: EELU: 2008 [48] Egyptian Russian University: ERU: 2006 [49] European Universities in Egypt (University of London (incl. LSE), University of Central Lancashire, University of East London) EUE 2021 (2021, 2021, 2024) [50] Future University in Egypt: FUE: 2006 [51] Misr ...