KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, was Pharaoh of Egypt from 1279-1300 and, according to ancient inscriptions, was a great warrior who led Egypt to many ...

Thursday morning, a rare solar alignment caused the sun to shine on the face of King Ramses II in Aswan’s Abu Simbel temple for 20 minutes, announcing the beginning of Egypt’s flood and growing season ...

Rameses II’s mummy can be found at the National ... skull from a CT scan which took thousands of X-rays and created an image from them all. Researchers in Liverpool then used the results of ...

The ancient colossus of famed pharaoh Ramses II was placed on Thursday morning at the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is under construction and located near the pyramids of Giza. The ...

these carvings were outnumbered by four images of Ramesses himself, even bigger than those of his wife. There was also an inscription stating that Ramesses II paid for the temple "for the Chief ...

The 12th century B.C.E. was a period of seismic unrest across the Eastern Mediterranean and when Ramses III had overcome invasions by the Libyans and the mysterious Sea Peoples, he set about ...

Thousands of visitors from all over Germany lined up at the main entrance, waiting for hours to view the treasures of King Ramses II. The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition includes ...