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  • Beyond the name Rameses she had not recognized the name of one of the kings her brother had mentioned during their conversation that evening -- indeed, she had failed to grasp the meaning of almost everything he had said, and yet she knew that he was talking down to her level, or thought he was.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • Across the Nile lies the Valley of the Kings, where the tombs of pharaohs from Amenhotep to Tutankhamun, and a whole handful called Rameses, are open for viewing.

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2010

  • Across the Nile lies the Valley of the Kings, where the tombs of pharaohs from Amenhotep to Tutankhamun, and a whole handful called Rameses, are open for viewing.

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2010

  • I was greatly teased about my fondness for "Rameses," as I called this new and majestic pet; there was a great fascination about him, and as I really wished to know more of his ways and habits, I carried the basket in which he lived everywhere with me indoors and out, and studied all possible ways of feeding him; but alas! nothing would induce him to eat.

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

  • These bodies four - or five thousand years old, splendidly preserved, have evidently been the object of every intruding and robber race that came through Egypt, yet many of them were so well hidden by the Priests that they were discovered only fifty years ago through the Arabs giving the secret away, and they were all secretly taken to Cairo, where they now are in the great Bulak museum where the whole world has the opportunity to see these grand old ancient rulers such as Rameses the Second, and others.

    The Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route 1920

  • The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.

    The Cube: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Let's face it, this is the Richard Madeley: if they traced him directly back to Pharaoh Rameses or Jesus Christ himself, it would make absolute sense.

    Who Do You Think You Are? – Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Hatshepsut, a woman of royal blood, ruled as pharaoh during this period, as did Tutankhamun and the long-lived Rameses the Great, famous for the colossal rock-cut statues he built at Abu Simbel as well as his war against the Hittites of Asia Minor.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • They included the oldest-known statue from the world's first city 9000 years ago at Catalhoyuk, the world's first peace treaty (made between Rameses II and the Hittite nation), and inlaid tables from Gordion (the city King Midas was said to have ruled, also famous for the Gordian Knot, which Alexander the Great cut).

    Scott S. Smith: Western Turkey for Americans Scott S. Smith 2011

  • They included the oldest-known statue from the world's first city 9000 years ago at Catalhoyuk, the world's first peace treaty (made between Rameses II and the Hittite nation), and inlaid tables from Gordion (the city King Midas was said to have ruled, also famous for the Gordian Knot, which Alexander the Great cut).

    Scott S. Smith: Western Turkey for Americans Scott S. Smith 2011

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