What it is: A broken statue depicting the Egyptian pharaoh ... the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II. Egyptology was a burgeoning ...

"My name is Ozymandias ... in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons. It was then roughly shaped before being moved on wooden sleds, and pulled ...