The ancient Hermopolis Magna today is located northwest of the modern Egyptian ... conserving the statue. According to National Geographic, Rameses II was considered a great king because he ...

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 ...

Statues are located in the southern side of the Karnak Temple first courtyard, there had originally been 33 before the transfer of 4 rams to Tahrir Square. Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and ...