Ramses III

noun

1. 1198–1167 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.

Ramses III

noun

1. died ?1167 _bc , king of ancient Egypt (?1198–?67). His reign was marked by wars in Libya and Syria

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Across the Nile at Medinet Habu — a mortuary temple for the pharaoh Ramses III built around an even older temple to Amun-Ra, the ancient Egyptian sun god — a team of American archaeologists and mostly Egyptian stonemasons have been countering water damage since the 1990s.

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Archaeologists started excavating in September in the area between the temples of King Ramses III and Amenhotep III. The original goal of the mission was to find King Tutankhamen’s mortuary temple, said the statement.

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Archaeologists started excavating in September in the area between the temples of King Ramses III and Amenhotep III. The original goal of the mission was to find King Tutankhamen’s mortuary temple, the statement said.

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One scroll featured in the show sheds light on the kind of conspiracies that were hatched in the harem: It’s a record of the trial of a wife of Ramses III, who plotted to overthrow the pharaoh and replace him with her son.

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Witnessing the adornments inside—the bright indigo and onyx-colored pictographs of the falcon-headed god Horus at the Temple of Ramses III and the obsidian-dark depiction of the night goddess Nut in the Tomb of Rameses VI—feels strangely intimate.

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