RAMSES II
Ramses II, was the third pharaon of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for about 66 years, from 1279 B.C. until 1213 B.C. His father was Seti I and his mother was Tuya. He is often remembered as the greatest, most celebrated and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which in turn is the peak period of Ancient Egypt. His successors and later Egyptians called him "Great Ancestor." He is known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources.
CURIOSITIES OF THE TOMB OF RAMSES II
THE JUDGEMENT OF OSIRIS
When a person died in Egypt, they had to overcome the Judgment of Osiris to gain access to eternal life.
First, Anubis placed the heart of the deceased on the plate of a scale, and the feather of the goddess Maat (justice and truth) on another plate.
Meanwhile, the gods asked the deceased how he had been when he lived, regarding his answers, the scales went up and down. If he had good behaviors, the heart weighed less than the feather and the deceased was granted eternal life, but if he had bad behaviors, the heart was eaten by a monster named Ammit and thus the deceased wasn't granted eternal life.
The tomb of Ramses (KV7) was buried in the Valley of the Kings, it has been excavated by H.Salt (1817), C.R.Lepsius(1844-1845), H.Burton (1913-1914), C.Maystre (1938) , Brooklyn Museum (1978), C.Leblanc (1993-today).
KV7 is located in the northern half of the necropolis, south of KV2 (Ramses IV) and just opposite KV6 (Ramses IX). It's also very close to the eternal rests of the sons of Ramses II, in KV5 and KV8. It has many qualities that make it stand out from the rest of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. It could be said that it's a hybrid between the tombs of the XVIII Dynasty and those of the Ramesside period. It's not the largest of all the tombs, it's the one with the largest area (with the exception of KV5, the only one of its kind), and it is also special in that it returns to the bent axis plan design (since the rest of the tombs the kings of the XIX and XX dynasties opted for the straight passage) and numerous annexed chambers. In addition, it is the penultimate tomb in the valley that has a burial well. However, one can already see in it the slight inclination of the corridors and the shape of the pillared hall that almost all the successors of this charismatic pharaoh would later imitate.