The discovery of a bronze sword inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II gives new insight into the imperial domination ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh ... Built from sandstone, Ramses adopted the design of his father’s mortuary temple and it served as a funerary cult site ...

The discoveries were made near the mortuary temple of Ramses II, also called the “Million Year Temple” or Ramesseum. The site continues to yield insights into Egypt’s religious, social, and economic ...

(photo credit: O'SHI. Via Shutterstock) On Saturday, sun’s alignment with the face of King Ramses II at the Abu Simbel Temple was obscured due to heavy clouds and weather fluctuations that ...

ASWAN, Feb 22 (MENA) – The sun aligned on the statue of Ramses II in Aswan’s Abu Simbel Temple on Saturday morning in a rare astronomical phenomenon that occurs biannually — on 22 October and 22 ...

The Supreme Council of Antiquities, in collaboration with Korea National University of Cultural Heritage, has launched a restoration project for the Ramesseum - the mortuary temple for the legendary ...

In attendance were German Ludwig Borchardt, who would discover the Nefertiti bust in 1912; Italian Ernesto Schiaparelli, who in 1904 would find the tomb of Nefertari, queen of Ramses II ...

The initiative aims to revive and preserve one of Egypt's most important temples, built by King Ramses II for the worship of the god Amun-Ra. The Ramesseum Temple is surrounded by a mudbrick wall ...

I’m at the vast Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ... how Hatshepsut’s stepson Thutmose III and his son Amenhotep II – for reasons we will never know – had thousands of carved images ...

In the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari opposite Luxor city, the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ... Kingdom pharaohs including Amenhotep III, Ramses II and Tutankhamun to construct and expand the ...