Now displayed vertically, this huge piece of carved granite is the sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III. This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian god Sokar-Osiris who protected the ...

Sea Peoples, groups of aggressive seafarers, were defeated by Ramesses III in 1178 BC when a tribe attempted to invade the country. Archaeologists with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

After nearly 500 years of unprecedented growth and prosperity, signs of trouble began to surface during Ramesses III’s reign ...

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This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...