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 ...

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

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient tombs with canopic jars and hundreds of statues ... dedicated to the pharaoh Ramses II, or Ramses the Great.

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 ...

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 ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Standing in front of the Ramesseum Temple in Luxor, Egypt, visitors find themselves dwarfed by the size of the ruins, their eyes drawn to the larger-than-life ...