About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...

A joint Egyptian-US archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a massive statue of King Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs. The find was made during excavations ...

What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a ...

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.

CAIRO, March 13. /TASS/. Egyptian archeologists hoisted the torso of a huge statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a muddy ditch in northeastern Cairo, a TASS correspondent reported on Monday.

Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...

However, Ptah's statue stays in the shadow because he is considered the "God of Darkness." The main temple at Abu Simbel, commissioned by Ramses II near the Nubia-Upper Egypt border, is dedicated ...

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?

Still farther north, Rameses I reopened Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai ... a pair of six-foot wooden guardian statues once covered in gold foil, and some statuettes of underworld deities.

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC). Granite; found in Thebes, Egypt. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" That was Shelley, writing in 1818 ...

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