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 ...

"In 1974, Ramesses II was sent on a flight to Paris for preservation and maintenance work," reads a Jan. 29 Facebook post, which is an image of a tweet. "But since French law required every person ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt’s ruler Ramses II has come to life in new detailed images created by CT software that allows accurate facial reconstruction. In a joint scientific project led by researchers from ...

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 Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, inaugurated the temporary exhibition ‘Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs’ at the Houston Museum of Natural ...

Pharaoh Ramses II," said Olette-Pelletier. Furthermore, the detail of an offering table was found beneath one of the images of the god Amon. In order to read the messages, viewers had to walk ...

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 ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

Nefertari was the royal wife of Pharaoh Ramses II, and her beauty was unmatched. So was her tomb—the walls are painted with beautiful images of the queen and a starry sky on the ceiling.