utilitarian and genre objects on display that provide a more general feel for the life and activities of ancient Egypt. Who was Ramses II? He was a tremendous egotist who built temples and ...

No travel destination in the world offers the diversity of Egypt. The country unquestionably belongs to a social and cultural ...

If accumulating grain currency counts, Ramses II was hands-down the richest pharaoh in Egypt's history. His family reportedly spanned over 200 wives and concubines and he fathered 96 sons and 60 ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Ramses II (the Great) was one of the most prolific builders of ancient Egypt. Hardly a site exists that he did not initiate, add to, complete, or build entirely himself. Some of the greatest ...

Archaeologists in Egypt are working to restore the Ramesseum, a temple belonging to Ramesses II, an Old Testament pharaoh ...

The statue was stolen from the Ramses II temple in the ancient city of Abydos in Southern Egypt more than three decades ago. The exact date is not known, but Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who heads Egypt's ...

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, Egypt.

The tomb of Ramses I has been reopened ... undertaken by Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani to the ancient Valley of the Kings on the western shore of the River Nile.

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Centuries ago in Ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Seti ordered all the male ... up as a Prince of Egypt and a brother to the Pharaoh's son Rameses II. As time passes, the two brothers are separated as ...

The ancient Egyptians built massive public monuments ... royal burial ground for pharaohs such as Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramses II, as well as queens, high priests, and other elites of the ...