Ramses II, commonly known as Ramses the Great, ruled Egypt from 1298 to 1235 B.C.E. He is considered the most powerful and celebrated pharaoh of the New Kingdom, itself the golden age of ancient Egypt ...

A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein, south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt in this handout image released on ...