Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great ...

Archaeologists uncovered the eight-foot-tall, six-ton monument to one of Egypt's greatest rulers miles away from its original home.

Despite a very shaky start, Ramesses II (reigned c1279 - 1212 BC) used diplomacy, a massive building program and endless propaganda to become the greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An excavated statue of Ramesses II. The upper half of a giant statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II has been ...

Archaeologists at Saqqara uncovered the tomb of a powerful royal treasurer who served Ramses II during Egypt's 19th Dynasty.

Ramesses II, who was born a civilian, inherited Egypt’s throne as a teenager, fought several prolonged conflicts with the Hittite empire, warded off pirate incursions along the Mediterranean coast, ...

This statue of the Pharaoh Ramesses II was designed to show him as a beneficent ruler, a mighty warrior and a living god. It was erected in the Ramesseum - his mortuary temple, where the cult of ...

Ramesses II fought the Hittites and signed the world's first official peace treaty. He undertook an unparalleled building programme, had over one hundred children and reigned for 67 years. Did he ...

Divers working in the waters of Abu Qir Bay off Alexandria have pulled a colossal quartzite sphinx bearing the cartouche of ...

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