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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo ...

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.

Now lying in pieces, the giant red-granite statue inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to craft the poem "Ozymandias" (the Greek form of User-maat-Re, one of Ramses II's many names): Of ...

The court is surrounded by statues of Ramses III in his Jubilee vestments. (Jubilees were typically celebrated in the 30th year of a pharaoh's reign and every five years thereafter.) Detail from ...

The Egyptian Building in Chino Hills is a surprising strip mall restaurant made to look like the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt ...

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.

The Egyptian expedition working on the groundwater treatment project at the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan discovered parts of a statue of King Ramses II. The discovered head showed King Ramses II ...

Treasures of Tutankhamen will take pride of place when the museum, showing more than 100,000 artefacts from Egypt’s golden ...

The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs Exhibition opened in Tokyo last week following the success of its US and European ...