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Ramesseum

Luxor Governorate, Egypt

The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"). It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor. It is the second largest temple in Egypt, occupying an area of c. 10 hectares (1, 100, 000 sq ft). It was originally called the House of millions of years of Usermaatra-setepenra that unites with Thebes-the-city in the domain of Amun. Usermaatra-setepenra was the prenomen of Ramesses II.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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