They had established themselves at Kadesh on the Orontes, and a long war of twenty-one years ended at last in a treaty of peace in which the two combatants agreed to respect from henceforth the existing boundaries of Egypt and Kadesh.

Egypt was left with Palestine on both sides of the Jordan, a possession, however, which it lost soon after Ramses' death.
The treaty was cemented by the marriage of the Hittite princess with the Pharaoh.
Ramses II.

was the great builder of Egypt.

Go where we will, we find the remains of the temples he erected or restored, of the cities he founded, and of the statues he set up.

His architectural conceptions were colossal; the temple of Abu-Simbel, hewn out of a mountain, and the shattered image of himself at Thebes, are a proof of this.