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 ...

Now lying in pieces, the giant red-granite statue inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to craft the poem "Ozymandias" (the Greek form of User-maat-Re, one of Ramses II's many names): Of ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC ... There were two courtyards in the Ramesseum, and our statue sat at the entrance to the second one. But magnificent though ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC ... There were two courtyards in the Ramesseum, and our statue sat at the entrance to the second one. But magnificent though ...

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC). Granite; found in Thebes, Egypt. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" That was Shelley, writing in 1818 ...