What it is: A broken statue depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (also spelled Ramses II) Where it is from ... The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo ...

CAIRO, March 13. /TASS/. Egyptian archeologists hoisted the torso of a huge statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a muddy ditch in northeastern Cairo, a TASS correspondent reported on Monday.

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...

Now lying in pieces, the giant red-granite statue inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to craft the poem "Ozymandias" (the Greek form of User-maat-Re, one of Ramses II's many names ...

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