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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, 2,000 rams' heads were found at the temple of Ramses II, which Egyptologists said showed the endurance of his impact. Part of a statue of the great king — his head and chest — were ...

Ramses II also had the temple complex at Abu Simbel decorated with depictions of himselfImage: NEON World Heritage Exhibitions The pharaoh was celebrated for his monumental buildings and quickly ...