Ramesses VII (1133–1126)

The reign of Ramesses VII:

Nothing is acknowledged of this son of Rameses VI exclude that he reigned for 7 years of economic asperity.

King Ramesses VII is believably the son of Ramesses VI and was the 6th Pharaoh of the 20th Dynasty. He constructed a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but at that place no other monuments signs that he constructed. He did have a son that didn't live to follow him.

Burial Position:

Rock-cut tomb in Thebes (The Valley of the Kings tomb 1). King Rameses VII was buried in (KV1) but no mummy has been discovered that can be distinguished as his.

Ramesses VII Monuments signs:

His tomb in The Valley of the Kings:

- Afford for centuries, allots of Romans Greek and graffiti

- Bright paint colors are ascribable refurbishment.

- It's reopened around 1995

- Arrests an curious figure buried by cartouches.

- Is not visited a lot.

- Afterward style, horizontal grave

- Described with aspects from the (Book of Gates)

- Sky and configurations on ceiling, and calender of banquets

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Ramesses IV (1151-1145)

Ramesses IV (1151-1145)

The reign of Ramesses IV:

Ramesses IV directed 8368 workmen (admitting 2000 soldiers) to wadi hammamet to beat stone for statues. Soldiers were to hold the workmen, not champion them. He doubled up the work forc at Deir el Medina in Luxor. He may have domiciled over the "Harem Conspiracy" courtyard

King Rameses IV, the son of King Rameses III, came up to the throne chair on a period while Egypt had come down on hard times. There is no certify that he assayed, or was capable, to bushel its wealth and outside authority. Texts of his rule speak of social agitation, rising crime, and economic decay.

Even so, Rameses IV did order copious work in various stone and turquoise quarries, and he constructed pluses to temples at and Thebes of Egypt , Heliopolis and Abydos raised a lot of statues at that place.

His possess memorial temple rested near Dayr al Madinah. His tomb, KV2, was entrenched the Valley of the Kings. Afterward, in Dynasty twenty-one, his body was acted with many other royal mummies to KV35 for keeping.

King Ramesses IV was the son of King Ramesses III. His rule endured no more than 6 years. He did endure the harem confederacy which was contrived to spoil his arrogates to the throne chair. He based a document in the grave of his father which is now called the Papyrus Harris I, that affords an complicate account of the rule of Ramesses III. Pharaoh Ramesses IV is believed to have been in his mid-forties when he got king. There are 2 stele that were discovered at Abydos by Mariette that exalt his piety and exceeding devotion to the deities. The quarrying of the rock is told to have convoluted over than 8000 people.

Ramesses IV did the high-priest Mont , as well as other adequate to officials and scribes to bring down the locate. There were 5000 soldiers that were most expected sent to haul the vast stones across the rough desert routes. He's as well known for the continuance of the Khonsu at Karnak, which was started by his father, Ramesses III.

A temple at Asasif, which is on the westerly bank of the River Nile at Thebes, was put up by Ramesses. Ramesses' grave was discovered in the Valley of the Kings and his mummy is at present in the Cairo Museum. The rests indicate that Ramesses was a belittled man who was bare, had a long nose and fine teeth.

Burial Position:

king Ramesses IV rock cut grave in Thebes (Valley of the Kings Tomb 2). His Body ascertained in the royal cache in tomb KV35 and isn't in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Egypt.

Ramesses IV Monuments:

Almost Monuments of Ramesses IV in KV2 Tomb (Ther Valley of the Kings): there's a lot of the appeal of King Ramesses VI, and lower crowded. Besides pollyannaish colors, just poor carving, abundant Greek and Coptic graffito and ping granite sarcophagus

Big tomb, but very bare. Hived up the mummy in the grave of Amenophis II. The archetype plans, absorbed on papyrus papers, are in the Museum of Turin.

Dissimilar from almost royal tombs, as Ramesses IV carried the throne chair afterward his father’s assassination, in a period time economic decay.

- Was acknowledged early one, and applied as a kind of “hotel” by betimes explorers. It was besides a Coptic Christian abode and was visited often in antiquity. Heaps of Greek and Coptic graffito

- 2 sketched contrives of the toms are acknowledged, the most accomplished and famous are in the Turin papyri.

- Very fiddling slope from the first depart of the tomb to the rear. Becharm has split stairses on either face of a ramp, affording to a first, 2nd, and 3rd corridors. The concluding corridor directs to a small antechamber and so to the burial chamber. There are some belittled annexes off the burial chamber, but additional than that, no sidelong annexes in the grave. The corridors are vast – some 10ft astray and 15 feet high, much bigger than normal.

- The frontage has the kings enthronement scenes and the corridors bear the Litany of Re. The cap is vultures, falcons, and flew scarabs.

- 3rd corridor has scenes of the Book of Caverns with stars on the ceiling, which later gets domed.

- The belittled burial chamber is closely filled up with the sarcophagus – it is outstandingly large. The chamber is adorned with the 2nd, 3rd, and fourth hours of the Book fo Gates. The ceiling is adorned with two big paintings of Nut besides the constellations, and aspects from the book of the dark.

- No mainstays in the tomb. No aspects from the Amduat.

- Fiddling funerary gear found, although the sarcophagus was barged in and left ajar. Nine foundation alluviations

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Setnakht (1185—1070)

Setnakht (1185—1070)

The reign of Setnakht:

The rule of Setnakht is indisposed known, the primary sources being the Elephantine Stela. Papyrus and Harris Papyrus Harris delineates the time of Sethnakht’s access as a period of afflict and confusion. Without doubt he was amplifying, but Setnakht does arrogate to have “cleared out the usurper” to the throne chair and, on a lower than 3 yearlong reign, to have bushelled law and dictate to Egypt.

When he broke, he was buried in KV14, the tomb applied by Tausert, which Setnakht had blew up. Declining to acknowledge the premature 2 pharaohs, the first pharaoh of the twentieth Dynasty dated the starting of his rule to that of King Seti II. He believably usurped the throne chair of Tworse, Seti II's widow, and afterward queen-pharaoh. He was at an boosted age when he claimed the throne but cared to achieve peace and order in a abruptly period. His tomb wasn't discharged when he died then he was localised in that Tworse's.

His coffin was discovered in Amenophis II's tomb but the mummy hasn't been discovered. Setakht was the father of king Ramesses III and the conserve of Ramesses's mother, Tiyemerenese.

Burial Position:

His tomb: Rock cut tomb at Thebes (the Valley of the Kings (in Luxor) tomb 14). He entombed in a tomb primitively bug for Twosret in. Might have arrogated the tomb himself as his original tome, KV11, came through to KV10 and was deserted. Or, his son, Ramesses III, acquired the tomb for his father. Setnakht’s Coffin determined in 1898 in the royal hoard in KV35. His body could be that of the undid man in a wooden boart in this tomb.

Setnakht Monuments:

Primitively helf wife (Tausert), arrogated by Sethnakht, who reigns 1200-1085 B.C.E. Sethnakht master tomb is at present Ramesses III. 112 meter long. Male gods bear female names, displaying that the tomb was arrogated by Sethnakht. This burial chamber has a barrel-domed ceiling. A granite sarcophagus is smashed.

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