Visual Timeline: Pi-Ramesses

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1279 BCE - 1213 BCE: Per-Ramesses is built during the reign of Ramesses II of Egypt.
 
1275 BCE: Per-Ramesses is functioning as a military-industrial center for launching campaigns from Lower Egypt.
 
 
1274 BCE: Ramesses II launches his campaign against the Hittites at Kadesh from Per-Ramesses.
 
1069 BCE: Per-Ramesses in decline as its harbors silt up and the New Kingdom of Egypt falls.
 
1060 BCE: Per-Ramesses largely dismantled and moved to the site of the new city of Tanis to the south.
 
 
 
 
 
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