23-foot-tall statue of Ramesses II—one of the most celebrated pharaohs throughout all 31 dynasties of Ancient Egyptian history. Roeder found the statue 150 miles south of Cairo in the Minya ...

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 ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

Initially archaeologists thought it was Ramses II, until one Psamtek’s five names was found engraved on the statue ... is in the Egyptian capital Cairo: “Many ruins from ancient Egypt ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC ... There were two courtyards in the Ramesseum, and our statue sat at the entrance to the second one. But magnificent though ...

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 ...

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC ... loaded the bust onto a boat and the dramatic cargo went from there to Cairo, to Alexandria, and then finally to London. On arrival, it astounded ...