It was thanks to a combined effort of both Egypt and the U.S. that allowed archaeologists to find it and discover that it was ...

Ramesses II's mummy, discovered in 1881 ... the city was a central settlement in the province, second only to Thebes. According to Mostafa Waziri, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council ...

one of the greatest monuments of the ancient world—Rameses I had reliefs carved on the massive gateway known as the Second Pylon. Farther north at Abydos, the burial place of the first kings of ...