Ramses II wanted there to be absolutely no question which pharaoh had built the magnificent temple at Abu Simbel. At its entrance, four 60-plus-foot-tall seated statues of him serve as sentries.

He died 3,000 years ago, but the world still knows his name: Ramses II. Many of his treasures and his coffin can now be admired in Cologne.

More than 2,000 decomposed ram skulls unearthed in a newly discovered warehouse in the temple of the ancient pharaoh Ramses II will help archeologists uncover more details about one of the oldest ...

Ramses the Great has been dead for 3,235 years, but this powerful Pharaoh still keeps a hold on the public imagination. Look at the long lines at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, which is now ...

Ramses II's cedar coffin Merytat3n via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4 ... The king even added his name to monuments built before his rule. Ramses’ death in 1213 B.C.E. left a layered ...

On View Peek Inside Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II’s Trove of Statues and Treasures, Now on View in an Epic Exhibition in Paris. Many of the more than 180 objects have never left Egypt before.

Ramses II reigned for an astonishing 67 years beginning in 1292 B.C., ... with the monuments’ history also detailed. The first on view is a red granite head of Ramses, ...

The monuments to Ramses II have weathered centuries—and a major relocation. The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photo: Roger Wood/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images.

A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari ...