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The Ramesseum Temple : Pharaonic
The Ramesseum is
the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses
the Great", also spelled "Ramses" and "Rameses"). It
is located in the Theban necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the River Nile from
the modern city of Luxor. The name – or at least its French form, Rhamesséion –
was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in
1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramesses' names and titles
on the walls. It was originally called the House of Millions of Years of
Usermaatra-setepenra that unites with Thebes-the-city in the domain of Amon.
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