An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow ...

The upper half of a giant statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II has been discovered near the ancient city of Hermopolis (modern-day el-Ashmunein), about 155 miles (250 kilometers) south ...

Ramesses II, often called Ramesses the Great, was one of the most powerful and famous rulers of ancient Egypt. He ruled for ...

Ramses and the Pharaoh’s Gold is a new exhibition devoted to the life and conquests of Egyptian Pharoah Ramses II, who ruled ...

Archaeologists excavating the temple of Ramesses II in Abydos stumbled upon an astonishing tribute: more than 2,000 mummified ram heads, neatly arranged as offerings to the pharaoh who died a ...

The Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold exhibition brings the treasures of Ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaoh to London. Here's our review.

Despite a very shaky start, Ramesses II (reigned c1279 - 1212 BC) used diplomacy, a massive building program and endless propaganda to become the greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt's ...

A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in an Egyptian burial chamber came with a complicated history: Ancient writing on the stone container showed that it had been used twice, but while its second occupant ...

For anyone who studies ancient Egypt—and even many who don’t—the name Ramses II looms large. Also known as Ramses the Great and Ozymandias, this New Kingdom pharaoh embodies many modern perceptions of ...

Organised in collaboration with the Egyptian government, the exhibition comes to London in the latest stage of a world tour ...

According to the prize-winning Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson in his new book Ramesses The Great: Egypt’s King of Kings, part of the Yale University Press Ancient Lives Series, Ramesses was the most ...