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13. Ramses II, was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, and lived from 1303 BC - 1213 BC.

Fri May 1, 2026, 04:22 PM

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He is often remembered as the greatest and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which in turn was the peak period of Ancient Egypt.

His mummy was discovered in the Deir el-Bahari cachette in 1881, and today it can be seen at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.

Ramesses II was the basis for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias". Diodorus Siculus gives an inscription on the base of one of his sculptures as: "King of Kings am I, Osymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works." This is paraphrased in Shelley's poem.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061010122400/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1904.html

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