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Ramses II
He lead several campaigns to Asia; among others he fought the Battle of Kadesh in 1285 B.C. against the King of the Hittites, Muwatalli. It was a battle they both claimed to have won, and which Ramses had reproduced both in text and pictures in his temples. A final peace treaty with the Hittites was made with King Hattushili the 3rd and was sealed with a marriage between the king's daughter and Ramses II.
Ramsees II, Abu Simbel
Besides being a campaign commander he was an active entrepreneur. He built the new residential town in the delta, Pi-Ramses. Of other mentionable building activities is his Temple of Death, the Rameesseum, and other temples in honour of his divinity in the eastern delta and in Nubia. His tomb is in the Valley of the Kings and his mummy was found in Deir al-Bahri. The most famous of his queens was Nefertari, and he is known to have had at least 40 daughters and 45 sons. In 1994 a large common grave for the children of Ramses II was found in the Valley of the Kings. Ramses was a name given to 11 Egyptian pharaohs in a time period of nearly 300 years during the 19th and 20th dynasty. Under the last Ramses-pharaohs the power was no longer in the hands of the kings but had been taken by the powerful high priests of the god Amun.
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