What were Ramesses IIs (1290-1224 B.C.E.) shortest and tallest pyramids?
Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses The Great) was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypt’s greatest and most powerful pharaoh. He didn’t built the pyramids but many monuments such as the Ramesseum and Abu Simbel. His memorial temple Ramesseum, was just the beginning of the pharaoh’s obsession with building. When he built, he built big, and enormously, on a scale unlike almost anything before. In the third year of his reign Ramesses started the most ambitious building project. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids. It is believed to have been built as a tomb for Fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu. The tallest structure in the world for over 3,800 years, it is sometimes called Khufu’s Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu. A few hundred metres south-west of the Great Pyramid lies the slightly smaller Pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu’s successors who is also commonly considered the builder of the Great Sphinx, a
