Ramesseum

The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II "Ramesses the Great". It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor. It was originally called the House of millions of years of Usermaatra-setepenra that unites with Thebes-the-city in the domain of Amon.

Ramesses II modified, usurped, or constructed many buildings from the ground up, and the most splendid of these, in accordance with New Kingdom royal burial practices, would have been his memorial temple: a place of worship dedicated to the pharaoh, god on earth, where his memory would have been kept alive after his death. Surviving records indicate that work on the project began shortly after the start of his reign and continued for 20 years.