Ramses I

noun

1. 1324?–1258 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.

Example Sentences

Ramses i., the founder of the nineteenth dynasty, introduced a new type of royal name, and also, as we learn from the monuments, a new type of royal face.

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Here we find fifty-seven shields; immediately before Ramses II. is Sethos, Ramses I., and Horus, then six illegible names; and before these Amosis.

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Tum and Thoth write the name of the king on leaves of the arbor vitæ, and Tum says to Ramses: "I write thy name for a series of days that it may be upon the divine tree."

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Amongst other treasures on display is a tomb guardian, nearly 8 foot high, of Ramses I, made of what is assumed to be cedar of Lebanon in around 1295BC, an ebony label of around 3000BC – that's 5000 years old – celebrating the jubilee of the Pharaoh Dan, the earliest known named ruler of a united Egypt - and possibly the original 'Dan the Man'.

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Few items are more prized than the mummified remains of its ancient pharaohs, and Egypt has tried for years to recoup what is likely the 3000-year-old body of Pharaoh Ramses I from U.S. museums.

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