The Ramasseum, mortuary temple, of Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the Theban necropolis in Upper Egypt. Jean-François Champollion, visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramses' names and titles on the walls. Ramesses II. The design of Ramses' mortuary temple adheres to the standard canons of New Kingdom temple architecture.

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Keywords: ancient, architecture, champollion, egypt, ii, jean-françois, kingdom, mortuary, necropolis, pharaoh, ramasseum, ramesses, ruins, temple, theban, upper