ictory in this battle, but it seems more likely to have ended in a status quo. Ramses II recorded 'his' victory on several monuments, showing him slaying the Hittites in person (see image above). The problems between Egyptians and Hittites were finally settled several years later when Ramses married a Hittite princess. *Picture*After he died, Ramses was buried in the famous royal necropolis of the Valley of the Kings, located in the hills on the west bank of the Nile opposite modern town of Luxor. However, the mummy of Ramses II was not found on location in his tomb, but was discovered in 1881 among many other royal mummies in the so-called Royal Cache in Deir el-Bahri on the Theban west-bank. According to a hieroglyphic text found on the mummy it was removed from the actual royal tomb for safety reasons by Egyptian priests in the 10th year of the reign of king Pinodjem (around 1070 B.C.) after robbers violated the burial. Though the text stated it was placed together with the body of his father, Seti, in the tomb of Amenhotep I, it was apparently later moved again to its final resting place in the royal cache. The mummy is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. ...
