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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 Consecration Thirty-three Centuries Ago.-Social Rank in Egypt, and the People, at that Period of its History. I.

THE name of the man whose place we are seeking to fix, and whose active part in history we would make plain to our readers recalls the exaltation of human personal position to the highest limits of pride and power, and the most excessive concentration, in one individual, of all the vital forces of a people that historical annals record. Yet, the name and the individual referred to, had remained enveloped in doubt and uncertainty until our day.