Ramses II

American  

noun

1. 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.

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Ramses II British  

noun

1. died ?1225 _bc , king of ancient Egypt (?1292–?25). His reign was marked by war with the Hittites and the construction of many colossal monuments, esp the rock temple at Abu Simbel

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Example Sentences

On Tuesday, I entered the wide-open atrium of the sleek, sand-colored building designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, a space so vast that even its 30-foot-tall red granite statue of Ramses II seems dwarfed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

At the centre of the main atrium stands an 83-tonne statue of Ramses II, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 66 years and presided over its golden age.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

The structure could help "reestablish the sense of the ancient landscape of Abydos before the construction of the Ramses II temple," the head of the mission, Sameh Iskander, was quoted as saying.

From Reuters • Mar. 25, 2023

Bear in mind that the 65-foot-tall sculptures of Ramses II were actually carved from — and were still part of — the rock face of a sandstone cliff near the river’s edge.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton