Ramesses II (variously transliterated as "Rameses" or "Ramses", born c. 1303 BC; died July or August 1213 BC) also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of #Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor". At age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I. He is believed to have taken the throne in
