Why is Ramses II the greatest pharaoh? King Ramses II was the most powerful pharaoh of Egypt's golden age and undoubtedly sired the most children. Therefore, he was long known as Ramses the Great and ...

Indie filmmaker Curtis Ryan Woodside and Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass worked together to create an in-depth documentary on the ...

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 ...

When Tutankhamun—aka King Tut—died ... kings of a unified Egypt, he began construction of a chapel and temple (Seti I would complete it). Still farther north, Rameses I reopened Egyptian ...

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 ...

The statue depicts the head, shoulders, and upper torso of King Ramses II ... securing Egypt's dominance across the Levant and Nubia. But Ramses II wasn't solely a warrior; he also left an ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC, and his giant head dominates this space from a gallery plinth ... although it would once have been even higher. "It's ...

Horemheb and his successors, including Ramses the ... ascribed to the king, and in Kemp’s opinion, even the word religion is “mischievous” when applied to ancient Egypt.

Granite; found in Thebes, Egypt "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, ...

In fact, you'll find 63 royal tombs here, including notable pharaohs like Tutankhamun (or King Tut), Ay and Ramses VI. The tombs are spread across two areas: the East Valley, where the bulk of the ...