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"Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs" is an all-new multisensory museum experience that will allow guests a window into the life and accomplishments of Ramses II, more commonly known as ...

He was ancient Egypt's most powerful Pharaoh, a king who dared to challenge the gods for immortality. Not through conquest alone, but with stone. Journey back to the dawn of his reign, as Ramses II ...

”Ramses II: The Pharaoh and His Time,” which opened recently at the new Jacksonville Convention Center, is a monumental exhibition making its first stop after a long run at Expo `86 in Vancouver, ...

The upper half of a giant statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II has been discovered near the ancient city of Hermopolis (modern-day el-Ashmunein), about 155 miles (250 kilometers) south ...

From whichever angle you approach Ramses II, the 13th century B.C.E pharaoh earns his epithet: the Great. His 67-year reign stands as the second longest in Egyptian history. Bold in both war and peace ...

More than 150 ancient artifacts — some that have never been outside Egypt — will be on display in Houston in November as part of “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,” a 10-city tour. The ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible - and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire.

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 Cairo’s ...

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 ...

A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country's most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister said Thursday.