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

Ramessess II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly’s ‘Ozymandias’ In 1930, German archaeologist Günther Roeder unearthed the lower half of an enormous statue depicting pharaoh Ramesses II, also ...

CAIRO, April 21 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the upper half of a towering statue of Ramses II, cracking a century-long mystery. Found in the ancient city of ...

A huge granite statue of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II has arrived at its new home near the pyramids outside Cairo. For 50 years, it had stood in a Cairo square, hemmed in by bridges, an ...

CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) - A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya ...

The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry denied that rainfall affected the statue of King Ramses II at the Great Lobby of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Social media and other networking websites have ...

The statue is called the "Younger Memnon ... poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create the poem "Ozymandias," which was the Greek name for Ramesses II. Shelley was born in 1792 and died in 1822.

The statue, depicting the head of King Ramses II, was originally part of the temple complex in the ancient city of Abydos, located in Southern Egypt. It is believed to have been stolen from this ...

Egypt Reclaims 3,400-Year-Old Stolen Statue Of King Ramses II The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored, the ministry said in a statement.