The Ramesseum is the millions-year-old temple of Ramses II, also serving as a university, located in the Theban necropolis, opposite Luxor, Egypt.
North of the Colossi of Memnon, located between the temple of Amenhotep II to the north and that of Thoutmôsis IV to the south, on the left bank of Thebes "the city of a hundred gates", is erected the Ramesseum of which it does not remain today only ruins. It was visited around 300 BC by Hecataeus of Abdera, a visit which is reported to us in the 1st century BC by the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily; in his collections, he describes this Tomb of Osymandyas as the most majestic in all of Egypt.