Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you're a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between man and the gods. After he died ...

Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...

The top half of a statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II has been unearthed by archaeologists in southern Egypt. Discovered at the El Ashmunein site, the 12.5-foot-tall limestone fragment was ...

Ramses II (the Great) was one of the most prolific builders of ancient Egypt. Hardly a site exists that he did not initiate, add to, complete, or build entirely himself. Some of the greatest ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) ...

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And he gave us living legends: his son Seti I ushered in a period of art and culture unrivaled in later Egyptian civilization, and his grandson Rameses II earned the suffix "the Great" by building ...

The museum houses the world's largest archaeological collection and visitors are getting to see much of it, after over a ...

L'Atelier des Lumières also takes us to the country's major cities, to discover Egypt's spiritual, cultural and political centers. Festivals and processions, cults, tributes: divinities are celebrated ...