🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ramesseum
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
6-ha memorial of Ramesses II with 60-m pylons, Kadesh reliefs and 1,000-t colossus 'Ozymandias'.
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Tagskadesh
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c. 2500 – 1200 BCE) · Amorite / Mitanni / Egyptian / Hittite / Sea Peoples
Orontes ford harbour of Ramses vs Hittites – quay 30 m silted 200 m east of battle tell.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
6-ha memorial of Ramesses II with 60-m pylons, Kadesh reliefs and 1,000-t colossus 'Ozymandias'.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · Amorite → Hittite–Egyptian frontier → Iron Age Aramaean
Qadesh/Kadesh Orontes city 33 ha (1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh battlefield, double walls) SW of Homs.
