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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 ...
Production of raw glass occurred at primary workshops, of which only three are known, all in Egypt: Amarna, Pi-Ramesses and Malkata. [2] At the first two sites cylindrical ceramic vessels with vitrified remains have been identified as glass crucibles, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] where the raw materials (quartz pebbles and plant ash) would be melted together ...
Some of the monuments and statues found in Tell el-Maschuta date either to the 9th century BC [3] or to the Ramesside period. This finding, as well as the other excavation results, prove that Tell el-Maschuta can therefore be ruled out as the "site of the Exodus from Egypt" or as the "Pithom near Pi-Ramesses". [18] [25]
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"
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"). It is situated around 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) north of Faqous in the Sharqiyah province of the eastern Nile Delta , about 60 mi (97 km) north-east of Cairo .
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.
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 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.
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