The Ramesseum, on the West Bank at Luxor, is a memorial temple to Ramses II; classical visitors called it the Tomb of Ozymandias. It was named The Ramesseum by Jean-Francois Champollion the French Egyptologist who deciphered hieroglyphics. The huge fallen statues of Ramses II carved out of single pieces of red granite inspired Shelley to write the poem Ozymandias, ridiculing Ramses aspiration of immortality.
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