Even the mightiest of Egyptian pharaohs could not outrun personal grief. Ramses II, a father to over 150 children, was forced to face the unthinkable: outliving many of his own sons. In a monumental ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor, stand ...

Measuring more than five and a half feet long and three inches thick, the fragment represents almost an entire wall of the sarcophagus. Kevin Cahail Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th century ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Engineers on Friday moved the giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a congested square in Cairo to its new home near the more peaceful Great Pyramids. Contractors moved the more than 3 ...

Throughout history, saints and sinners, czars and generals have been called “great,” from Alexander of Macedonia, Catherine of Russia, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to Charlemagne of France, Alfred of ...

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 ...

Journey to the magnificent Abu Simbel and discover the timeless love story of Pharaoh Ramses II and his beloved Queen ...

Cairo — Archaeologists have announced the discovery of more than 2,000 rams' heads at the temple of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II — a find that the man in charge of the dig said surprised ...

More than 2,000 decomposed ram skulls unearthed in a newly discovered warehouse in the temple of the ancient pharaoh Ramses II will help archeologists uncover more details about one of the oldest ...

The pink granite sarcophagus of Ptah-M-Wia, an important official during the reign of Ramses II Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists excavating Saqqara, an ancient necropolis ...

In the fall of 1986, the big story in Jacksonville was one more than 3,000 years in the making — a buzzworthy traveling exhibit centered on Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.

CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) - A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt's ...