A 36ft statue of pharaoh Ramesses II dominates the museum’s atrium Credit: Getty The statue is the starkest illustration of the scale of an institution that, with an astonishing 490,000 square ...

Following two decades of setbacks, the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... include a 36-foot-high, 83-ton statue of the pharaoh Ramses II, canopic jars still containing mummified ...

Museums in Turin don't merely display their collections: they do so with panache, in monuments more than a match for the ...

Organized by the Jacksonville Art Museum and sponsored ... Who was Ramses II? He was a tremendous egotist who built temples and monumental statues across the breadth of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Labelled the “world’s largest open-air museum”, Luxor is the start and end point ... There are magnificent courtyards and colonnades to peruse here, as well as imposing statues of Ramesses II, one of ...

Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning for Cambodians. Where and how to display them remain open questions. Visitors to the National Museum of ...

Saint John Paul II and the Shroud of Turin.” The exhibit is a response to the beloved saint’s call for greater understanding ...