Ramesses IV through XI (the later Ramesside kings)
1153 BCE–1069 BCE · New-Kingdom
A grouped entry for the eight later kings named Ramesses, the fourth through the eleventh, who presided over the long decline of the New Kingdom in Dynasty 20: falling royal authority, economic strain, the Theban tomb-robbery trials, and the steady rise of the priesthood of Amun at Thebes. All are real historical kings, none invented, but they are individually thinly distinguished. Under Ramesses XI central power effectively fragmented, the High Priests of Amun and the northern ruler Smendes partitioning Egypt between them, which sets the stage for the Third Intermediate Period.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ramesses IV through XI (the later Ramesside kings)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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