Pi-Ramesses
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- 1059 BC
- Founded
- 1277 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.799, 31.834
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: The capital city of the ancient Egyptian 19th dynasty.
History
Pi-Ramesses was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II at Qantir, near the old site of Avaris. The city had served as a summer palace under Seti I, and may have been founded by Ramesses I while he served under Horemheb.