The pharaoh Ramses II, or Ramses the Great, ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.E., as the third king of the 19th Dynasty. Nicknamed the “builder pharaoh,” Ramses commissioned many temples ...

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Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain ... He began learning the art of warfare as a child and, alongside his father, he went into battle against the neighboring peoples as an archer ...

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 ...

A 3,400 year-old bust of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh King Ramses II has been returned to Egypt after being stolen and smuggled out of the country more than 30 years ago. The bust is being held at ...

Distinguished Curator in Charge of Ancient Art for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "You'll see necklaces, and earrings, and bracelets made out of pure gold." Ramses II was the third pharaoh of ...

Ramses II reigned for an astonishing 67 years beginning ... the Fine Arts Museums’ curator in charge of ancient art. Dreyfus worked on the de Young’s two popular King Tut exhibits, but she ...

This state-of-the-art exhibition features the greatest collection of Ramses II objects and Egyptian jewelry ever to travel to the United States. Along with the pharaoh's colossal royal sculpture, the ...

The sarcophagus once contained the mummified remains of Ramses II, who ruled for almost 67 years during the 13th century BC and oversaw major military conquests and monumental construction ...

an Egyptologist at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre art history school who is scientific commissioner to the exhibit. “I was 16 in 1976” when Ramses II was last in Paris, Farout added.

The bronze sword is inscribed with the cartouche of Ramses II. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities “It is an important discovery highlighting the strategic role of Tell Al-Abqain area ...