The news was announced by Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on March 4. The statue depicts King Ramses II in a seated position, wearing a double crown and a headdress topped with a royal ...

Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's antiquities ministry ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

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They destroyed statues of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, and they omitted the names of the heretic king and his successors from official lists of Egyptian rulers. This act of damnatio memoriae was so ...

And during that time, he had more than 100 children! The four colossal statues of the Egyptian king Ramses II at the entrance to the Great Temple in Abu Simbel, near Aswan, Egypt. Osiris is one of ...

It's called a shabti and this little statue tells us about the ... the beliefs and rituals of the Ancient Egyptian people. We chart the journey through King Tutankhamun’s short life, becoming ...

The statue that dates back to the Hellenistic period, which covers the time between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 BC, according to the History ...