Definition of Ramses ii

1. Noun. King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramses Ii

Ramon y Cajal
Ramona
Ramos gin fizz
Ramphastidae
Ramphomicron
Ramsar
Ramsay
Ramsay Hunt
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Ramsden's ocular
Ramsden circle
Ramsden disk
Ramsden eyepiece
Ramses
Ramses II
Ramses the Great
Ramsey
Ramsey theory
Ramsgate
Ramsons
Ramstedt operation
Rana cascadae
Rana clamitans
Rana goliath
Rana palustris
Rana pipiens
Rana sylvatica
Rana tarahumarae
Ranales

Literary usage of Ramses ii

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Some things have come to us of the literature of the times ; chiefly the poem which Ramses II had composed and written on the walls of the temples to ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Ramses II. is without doubt the greatest figure in the long line of the Pharaohs, and at the same time ho is the one of whose character we have the best ..."

3. Egyptological Researches by Wilhelm Max Müller (1906)
"A LIST OF ramses ii IN KARNAK. (PLATE 59-) On the south wall of the temple of Karnak, separated by the door from Ramses IPs great list of Palestinian towns ..."

4. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1911)
"Central Egyptian Saloon chiefly contains antiquities of the time of Ramses II., the Pharaoh of the Oppression (14th cent. BC). In the middle, 965. ..."

5. The Story of the Pharaohs by James Baikie (1908)
"CHAPTER XI THE STRUGGLE FOR SYRIA—SETY I. AND ramses ii. ... Sety I. to carry out the main body of the work, and for his grandson Ramses II. to complete it. ..."

6. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to by James Henry Breasted (1906)
"See Great Abydos Inscription of Ramses II, 1. 29. sA series of incidents in the myth of the god are now dramatically enacted by the priests as the ..."

7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"Now, as Joseph belongs to the later time of the Shepherds, the Exodus would fall about the end, or after the end, of the reign of Ramses II. ; and here, ..."

8. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"On each side in the GATEWAY is Ramses II. before various deities. ... Ramses II., Ramses IV., and Ramses VI.) are of little interest On the S. side are the ..."

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