The missing upper half of a statue of King Ramses II has finally been discovered in the south of Egypt. The excavation was organized by a joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission between the ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a giant 3,000-year-old statue thought to depict Ramses II, in what the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities is describing as “one of [its] most important arch ...

When the statue was discovered between 1958 and 1960 it was broken into 57 pieces. The fame of Rameses II, the third king of the 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, is put down to his flair for self ...

statues, coffins, mummies and burial sites, remains of a Roman-style Hellenistic gymnasium, ruins of a funerary garden and a pyramid's burial chamber. CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry ...

Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, ruled Egypt for around 60 years, from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE. He is credited with expanding ancient Egypt’s reach as far as modern Syria to the east and ...

Their intended target? A 10-foot granite statue of Ramses II — who ruled for 68 years as one of ancient Egypt’s mightiest pharaohs — weighing almost 10 tons, Egyptian officials said.

Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt ...

This statue of the Pharaoh Ramesses II was designed to show him as a beneficent ruler, a mighty warrior and a living god. It was erected in the Ramesseum - his mortuary temple, where the cult of ...

The eight-meter statue of Ramses II and other relics unearthed in Matariya arrived at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square early… ...

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