Archaeologists have uncovered the long-lost top half of a massive Ramesses II statue—nearly a century after its base was ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

Archaeologists found ancient jars used for holding the dead person’s organs and hundreds of statues carved to look like the ...

and depicted Ramesses II wearing a headdress topped with a royal cobra. However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first ...

Some 96 years ago, German archaeologist Günther Roeder unearthed the lower half of what would’ve been a massive, 23-foot-tall statue of Ramesses II—one of the most celebrated pharaohs throughout all ...

The Grand Museum Cairo took 20 years to build but will open in July. It will showcase a vast array of Egyptian history.

For the absolute best views of California’s most unhinged shopping mall building, folks tend to stand on the dirty asphalt behind a Hobby Lobby near Los Angeles — the closer to the ...

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient tombs with canopic jars and hundreds of statues ... dedicated to the pharaoh Ramses II, or Ramses the Great.