Marathon’s cinematic trailer has left fans with many questions about the setting, and some of the answers can be found by ...

directly or indirectly to the imperious figure represented in the work (in all likelihood said Ozymandias, more formally, Rameses II) the sculptor at the behest of other patron or muse. Shelley’s most ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh ... to their original location south of the pharaoh’s giant statue. Built from sandstone, Ramses adopted the design of his ...

These texts, previously unnoticed, reveal new information about the reign of Ramesses II, the pharaoh who commissioned this monument at the entrance to the temple of Luxor in the 13th century BCE.

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 ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II, dubbed the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban ...

Some 96 years ago, German archaeologist Günther Roeder unearthed the lower half of what would’ve been a massive, 23-foot-tall statue of Ramesses II—one of the most celebrated pharaohs throughout all ...

Several blocks from a temple dedicated to Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled between 1279-1213 BC under the 19th Dynasty, were also found. "The monumental building was almost entirely ...