1279 BC

Events in 1279 BC 1

• 1279 BC – 1213 BC Ramesses II -- the great builder Ramesses II (c.1279-1213 BC) reigns for 66 years and builds more monuments than any other pharaoh: Abu Simbel, the Ramesseum, the hypostyle hall at Karnak. His Battle of Kadesh against the Hittites (c.1274 BC) produces the world's first recorded peace treaty. His mummy, found in 1881, shows he died aged about 90 with red hair.