It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is called the "Younger Memnon" and depicts the pharaoh Ramesses II. He ruled from 1279 to 1213 B.C. It is an 8.8-foot-tall broken head and torso of ...

Travel back through 3,000 years of Egyptian history and come face-to-face with the Statues of Ramesses II and Amenhotep III. The objects in the Egyptian sculpture gallery represent three millennia of ...

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

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

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...

Hobbyist Mark Ragan of Edgewater found himself enmeshed in the underworld of art smuggling when he bought a handful of ...

Cairo, Jan 19, SPA -- Egyptian archeologists intend to examine the mummy of King Ramses II (1279-1213 B.C.) in an attempt to prove that he was the pharaoh of the exodus of Jews from Egypt, the ...

Once the most sacred site on the Nile, Heliopolis wasall but forgotten until archaeologists returned tosave it from ...

3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future —The 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Ramesses II said to have inspired Percy Shell ...

Obviously, what I thought I was seeing was impossible. I was in Egypt, looking at what is most likely the first pyramid built ...