id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8088 Ramesses VI - Wikipedia .html text/html 9988 1325 83 Immediately after his accession to the throne,[note 9] Ramesses VI and his court may have visited Thebes on the occasion of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley or the Opet Festival, concomitant with the preparations for Ramesses V's burial.[49] Ramesses VI visited the city on at least another occasion during his reign, when he installed his daughter as Divine Adoratrice of Amun.[49] The situation in the south of Egypt at the time of Ramesses VI's accession was not entirely stable, as attested by records showing that the workmen of Deir el-Bahari could not work on the king's tomb owing to the presence of "the enemy" in the vicinity, a situation which occurred over a period of at least fifteen days during Ramesses VI's first year on the throne.[3] This "enemy" was rumoured to have pillaged and burned the locality of Per-Nebyt[note 10] and the chief of the Medjay of Thebes—essentially the police—ordered the workmen to remain idle and watch the king's tomb.[50] It is unclear who these enemies were, the term could designate parties of Libyan Meshwesh,[35] Libu and Egyptian bandits, or as the Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý conjectured, a full blown civil war between followers of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI,[note 11][50] a hypothesis supported by Rice[36] but which has been strongly rejected by Kitchen[51] and, to a lesser extend, by Grimal and van Dijk.[4][35] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8088.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8088.txt