The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

When the Nile flooded, Egyptians celebrated the feast ... 12th century B.C. Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo Photograph by Araldo de Luca Egypt displayed its greatness with impressive feats ...

The Egyptian obelisk in Place de la Concorde in Paris may conceal hieroglyphic ... were designed to be seen by Egyptian nobles as they passed by boat on the Nile, thereby reinforcing Ramses II's ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II ... it’s stood at Place de Concorde, a public ...

at the time of Ramses II’s reign. But at this time, the obelisk that is now in Paris would have had a face that could be seen by passengers traveling along the Nile River, and it is from this ...

Located at Place de la Concorde in the ... by nobles who were arriving by boats on the Nile when it was originally in Egypt. One scene depicting Ramses making an offering to the god Amun ...

The Luxor Obelisk stands at Place de la Concorde in Paris ... On the side that once faced the Nile, a symbol hidden in Ramses’ crown caught his eye. The hieroglyph showed the “horns of a bull” — a ...

In 1836, the obelisk found its home in Paris, in Place de la Concorde ... sailing on the Nile, according to EuroWeekly. This suggests that the message, exalting Pharaoh Ramses II’s divine ...

it is indeed Ramses II who rules Egypt," Olette-Pelletier added. On the opposite face of the obelisk, which originally faced the Nile, another type of message is engraved. According to Olette ...

Standing tall in Place de la Concorde, the Luxor Obelisk has long drawn admiration ... one that would have been visible to passing noblemen sailing down the Nile — glorifies Ramses II’s divine ...

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 ...