The reign of Ramses II marks one of the pinnacles of ancient Egypt. This pharaoh left an indelible mark through his ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

This dynamic recreation of the 1275 B.C.E. Battle of Kadesh, Ramses II’s greatest military achievement, is a feat of technology, ... including video timelines and scale models.

Ramesses II fought the Hittites and signed the world's first official peace treaty. He undertook an unparalleled building programme, had over one hundred children and reigned for 67 years. Did he ...

The troves of work and art come from royal tombs of the 12th dynasty, about 600 to 700 years before Ramses II and of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, about 200 to 300 years after him.

Egypt reveals details about 30 ancient coffins found with mummies inside 02:55. Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a sword earlier this month which was marked by ancient pharaoh Ramses II, Egypt's ...

A huge granite statue of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II has arrived at its new home near the pyramids outside Cairo. For 50 years, it had stood in a Cairo square, hemmed in by bridges, an ...