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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ramesses II is remembered for being the most powerful ... with the details of a ruined statue he came across. The statue is that of Ozymandias. Though the structure once clearly once beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...