Where is Ramesses now?

Answer 1

"Ramesses" means "The Moses of Ra". To answer this question we need to explain there were about 12 or 13 Egyptian kings called "Ramesses". The Egyptians named this group of kings after Moses about 900 years after the death of Moses of Israel. Few people realise that the Egyptian chronologies are in a complete mess. It has been agreed, by most generations of "Egyptologists", that a king called Ramesses was contemporary with Moses of Israel (circa 1565-1445 BC). However, this is quite wrong. Ramesses II had a son named Merneptah. He wrote that "Israel's seed is destroyed; The Land (Retinu) razed to the ground." Thi s sentence only makes sense in 586 BC when Nebuchadnezzar castrated Jewish males and flattened the entire country. The 18th dynasty which expired before the 19th and 20th dynasties of the ramessides took over ended with Tutenkhamen. Radio-carbon dating analysis of King Tut's bed and furniture revealed he lived in 800 BC, not 1350 BC. Queen Hatshepsut, supposedly but wrongly circa 1450 BC, of the 18th dynasty, is the Sheba of the South (Ophir, Auphirah or Africa) from The Bible. Hatshepsut means "The Sign of the Sheba of the South". She was Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia (The South). Her temple at Deir el-Bahari was a copy of Solomon's temple (950 BC). Thus the ramessides must have reigned Egypt hundreds of years after Solomon of Israel who himself was 500 years after Moses. "Moses" or "Moshe" in Semitic speaking, is an Egyptian word for someone born from the river. Whether that is the actual meaning is a debate. But that is why Moses-Moshe got the name so something like that meaning is probably correct. It is in effect an Egyptian term revering the River of Egypt. In the logic or myth of the ancient Egyptians, if a baby was found floating on the Nile and an Egyptian princess espied him there, a god must have supplied the baby. Thus a god had destined this baby to rule Egypt. Since the 12th dynasty pharaoh of Moses' time, perhaps Amenemhat I, had an heir, Moses was taken into the royal household as an adopted prince. He would be trained to administer Egypt. He ended up being the great prophet and leader of Israel instead but 900 years later, in 650 BC, the Egyptians had a new constitutional structure (according to Herodotus). In this structure, the country was divided into twelve provinces. A governor called a "Ramesses" (Moses of Ra) would govern each district. One of them, Sety or Psametichus (Sety Ptah Maat), re-instituted monarchical rule because this system failed. He removed the twelve ramesside governors. Later Egyptian historians like Manetho (circa 300 BC) thought these ramessides ruled in sequence. The truth is that they were contemporaries. That mistake alone resulted in them and later Egyptologists adding 100 extra years to Egyptian chronology. But that is a relatively minor mistake compared to the 800 to 900-year error regarding the Moses=Ramesses II (or III) equation. For more about this problem refer to the websites below. To conclude this question, only two kings named Ramesses had any significant role in Egypt's history. They are Ramesses II and III. Ramesses I apparently only reigned for one year. This is just an 'administrative' entry to explain the experiment with the twelve ramesside governors. After Sety's coup, unless he was actually the first "Ramesses", his successor or son was "Ramesses II". This is the one usually, but totally falsely, who is linked with Moses as contemporary. After his sons succeeded him, probably culminating with Merneptah, another army general (like Sety?) took control. His name seems to have been recorded as Amasis and he seems to have become Ramesses III. He fought the Persians (Peleset or Pereset) and the Greeks (Danae or Athenians) after the fall of Nebuchadnezzar's Chaldean-Babylonian empire. Some people think Ramesses III was the Ramesses of Exodus 1:11. Neither ramesside was king of Egypt during Israel's Exodus. Both ruled Egypt around the time of Israel's exile to Assyria and Babylon (720 to 586 BC). That is also why we still have their mummies. They were quite recent kings in the context of Egypt's dynastic history going back to circa 2200 BC (not 3000 BC).