About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made ... poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create the poem "Ozymandias," which was the Greek name for Ramesses II.

"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 ...