Are there any living, direct descendants of the Pharoah Rameses?
There were 11 pharaohs named Ramses, but I assume you are talking about Ramses II (aka Ramses the Great) who reigned from 1279 to 1213 BC. He was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty. The question you asked is a tricky one to answer, because everyone alive today is probably related to Ramses in some way. Some geneticists believe that everybody on earth is at least 50th cousin to everybody else. That means that if you go back 50 generations (about 1250 years), you share at least one ancestor with everyone else on earth. It has been about 130 generations since Ramses lived. I would say that there are no “direct” descendants of Ramses II alive today, in the sense that there is no one who could claim to be the rightful king of Egypt based on descent from Ramses. This is because Ramses’s dynasty, the 19th, came to a dead end with the death of his grandson, Seti II. At that time a Syrian official named Bay userped the throne and had any other claimants killed. In the following centuries, Eg
