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Ramses II
A larger-than-life Ramses II towering over his prisoners and clutching them by the hair. Limestone bas-relief from Memphis, Egypt, 1290–24 bce; in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The Ramesseum, the funerary temple of Ramses II, was built on the west bank of the Nile River at Thebes in Upper Egypt.1