In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's antiquities ministry ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo, Egypt.

Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...

Who was Ramses II? He was a tremendous egotist who built temples and monumental statues across the breadth of Upper and Lower Egypt. One of the pharaoh’s major achievements was the completion of ...

In addition, statues depicting him or his ... "Our modern world differs greatly from Ancient Egypt. This exhibition allows visitors to dive into Ramses' world and discover a completely different ...

He also commissioned the largest monolithic statue ever ... Ozymandias, otherwise known as Ramses the Great. Can you locate two Egyptian crosses, or ankhs, somewhere in this image?

A statue discovered in the mud on the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Heliopolis, is not Pharaoh Ramses II but King Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610 BC. Initially archaeologists ...

Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an astonishing 66 years ... a palace and treasuries There were two courtyards in the Ramesseum, and our statue sat at the entrance to the second one.

The Egyptian Building, as it’s come to be ... In the poem, Shelley tells of a crumbling statue of Ramses II out in the desert, calling it a “colossal wreck, boundless and bare” as it withers ...

The new Egyptian Museum – officially known as The Grand Egyptian Museum – is definitely very grand, reports east Auckland ...

Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is preparing for a lavish opening, featuring a towering statue of Ramses II and more than 100,000 artefacts, including ...