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