Rameses the Great; or, Egypt 3300 Years Ago

Egypt under the greatest of the pharaohs, written when the hieroglyphs had only just begun to speak — Rameses II's wars, monuments and household, with thirty-nine wood engravings.

Rameses II

6 pages in this part of Rameses the Great.

Rameses II (Mei-Amoun the Great otherwise)

Rameses II.-Mei-Amoun the Great, otherwise known as Sesostris. The Names of Rameses; his Childhood; his Youth; his Coronation. - A…

Rameses II (Mei-Amoun the Great otherwise) (II)

Rameses II. - Mei-Amoun the Great, otherwise known as Sesostris. The Names of Rameses; his Childhood; his Youth; his Coronation. -A…

Rameses II: Egyptian

In vain have the chisel and the pencil perpetuated both upon the finest monuments in the valley of the Nile. In vain in the basreliefs that…

Rameses II: Seti

Yet, after all, it matters but little to the history of humanity whether Rameses II. was a member of the eighteenth dynasty, as Champollion…

Rameses II: Mei-Amoun

The Queen Nofre-Ari, the youthful companion of Mei-Amoun when he too was young, robed like him in rich and almost transparent tissues, of…

Rameses II: Ammon

THE tabernacles of the gods were followed by statuettes of the royal ancestors and predecessors of Mei-Amount also carried and interpreted…

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