Ramses Ramses

Ramses - Definition and Overview

Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses" or "Rameses") is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period:

19th Dynasty
20th Dynasty

Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses is also the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Re".

Ramesses is also the name of a Doom Metal band from England.

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