His mummified body lay silent for over three millennia—until now. Scientists have reimagined Ramesses II with striking clarity, both young and old.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Check out the dazzling display of gold jewelry and the superb workmanship of Egyptian artists at The Ramses Exhibition in San Francisco's de Young Museum. "There's something for ...

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, stand ...

The missing upper half of a statue of King Ramses II has finally been discovered in the south of Egypt. The excavation was organized by a joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission between the ...

From finishing his father’s grand temples to carving his name across Egypt’s map, Ramses II reigned as one of history’s most extraordinary pharaohs — fathering scores of children, commanding armies, ...

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A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein CAIRO (Reuters) - A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper ...

For anyone who studies ancient Egypt—and even many who don’t—the name Ramses II looms large. Also known as Ramses the Great and Ozymandias, this New Kingdom pharaoh embodies many modern perceptions of ...

Measuring more than five and a half feet long and three inches thick, the fragment represents almost an entire wall of the sarcophagus. Kevin Cahail Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th century ...