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.

The Names of Rameses II

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The Names of Rameses II

[Note by M. Rougé.] If the testimony of Tacitus placed the present reading of the name of Rameses beyond dispute it did not assist us in…

The Names of Rameses II: Sesostris

It is not the Sesostris of Herodotus that we meet with, then, at the twelfth dynasty; it was, indeed, a king who was victorious on the…

The Names of Rameses II: Amenoph

THE IMAGES OF ANCESTORS, (p. 79.) THE small statues of the ancestors and predecessors of Rameses II., which the musal paintings represent…

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