Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC, and his giant ... with the crown passing to Libyans and Nubians, Persians and Macedonians, and Ramesses' statue itself ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the upper half of a towering statue ... Ramses the Great, the pharaoh’s legacy was cemented by a slew of monuments and statues constructed in his name ...

The statue depicts the head, shoulders, and upper torso of King Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, adorned with a double crown and a regal ... until 1213 BCE. His 66-year reign is ...

Ramses II (the ... any tour of Egypt bear his stamp: Abu Simbel, Karnak and Luxor Temples, the Ramesseum, and many others. He also commissioned the largest monolithic statue ever, a seated statue ...

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 ...

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC ... and he was seen as such a successful ruler that nine later pharaohs took his name. He was still being worshipped as a god in the time of Cleopatra ...

What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ... the Greek name for Ramesses II. Egyptology was a burgeoning ...

CAIRO, March 13. /TASS/. Egyptian archeologists hoisted the torso of a huge statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a muddy ditch in northeastern Cairo, a TASS correspondent reported on Monday.