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Ramesses II, who was born in 1303 B.C. and died in 1213 B.C., is considered one of the most influential and powerful Egyptian rulers of the New Kingdom.

The expert added, " [Ramesses II] spent the first two years of his reign emphasizing his divinity with his wife Nefertari by paying homage at Egypt's great shrines, and by buying priests." ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

Now at peace, Ramesses could concentrate on his two great loves - his chief queen, Nefertari, and himself. He constructed the Ramesseum, a temple, purpose-built to manufacture tales of his greatness.

It was made in the early 13th century B.C. and depicts the pharaoh Ramesses II, also called Ramesses the Great, who ruled from 1279 until 1213 B.C.