RÂ. The Sun, the Supreme Being, and the organizer of the world according to Egyptian mythology. He was worshipped in the entire country, but especially in Heliopolis. He is always represented with the face of a hawk. With the fifth dynasty the Pharaohs began to call themselves the incarnation of Râ, or [glyphs] SA RÂ, "_the son of the Sun_", which title they retained until the time of the Roman emperors. The Egyptian name of the sun is [glyphs] RÂ. ^{21 22 27 30 31 36 37 38 39 46 47 48 49 50 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 82 91} {144}RÂ-HOR-KHUTI. A name of the sun-god, written in Egyptian [glyphs] or [glyphs] RÂ-HOR-KHUTI, "_the Sun, the hawk of the two horizons_". ^{28 29 30 46 47 49 55 58 59 60} RAMSES II. One of the greatest monarchs the world ever saw, the son of Seti I., and a king of the XIXth dynasty. He conquered most of the then known world, built magnificent temples, erected obelisks, and perpetuated his name on almost every Egyptian monument. His Egyptian name is ^{7 8 9 10 16 36 37 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 88 91} suten-kaut? User-Mâ-Râ-sotep-en-Râ sa Râ Amen-mer-Râ-meses-su The king of "Strong in truth, the Sun's "Beloved of Amen, the Upper and the Sun, chosen offspring, Sun, begetting himself." Lower Egypt, of the Sun", RAMSES III. A famous king of the XXth dynasty, who conquered the Hittites, Syrians, and the tribes of Palestine. His name in Egyptian is ^{112 131} suten-kaut? User-mâ-Râ-Amen-mer sa Râ Râ-meses-heq-An The king of Upper "Strong in truth, the the Sun's, "The Sun's child, and Lower Egypt, Sun, beloved of Amen", offspring, prince of Heliopolis." RÂQEDηT. The Egyptian name of Alexandria (which see), called Rhakôtis by the ancients. ^{91} REDESIEH. A modern village in what was formerly the first nome of Upper Egypt. ^{68} RED SEA. This was called in Egyptian [glyphs] MUQED·T. ^{86 88} RHAKOTIS. The Greek name of the town on whose site Alexander the Great built Alexandria (which see). ^{91} RISING SUN. The god Râ. ^{22} ROME. The capital of the ancient world. Its Egyptian name occurs on the Barberini Obelisk as [glyphs] HARM·T. ^{5 7 9 20 22 23 25} {145}ROSETTA. A modern town at the mouth of the Bolbitinic arm of the Nile. It was the ancient Bolbitiné. ^{91} ROSETTA STONE. Without a doubt this is the most important monument of antiquity that has come down to us. It is a stelé of black basalt, bearing an inscription in Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. It contains a decree of the priests in honor of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, which was issued on March 27, 195 B. C. This stone, discovered in 1799, furnished the key for deciphering the hieroglyphs, and is now preserved in the British Museum. ^{92}