It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is called the "Younger Memnon" and depicts the pharaoh ... the British Museum in London.

A 10-foot granite statue of Ramses II — who ruled for 68 years as one of ancient Egypt’s mightiest pharaohs — weighing ... the country from the Houston Museum of Natural Science after ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an ... one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. The city, about 300 miles south of Cairo, was a burial place for early pharaohs, and a necropolis ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a number of broken statues of ancient Egyptian royalty ... in 1881 and is kept in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. Nine subsequent pharaohs took the name Rameses, as ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza ... glimpse of Tutankhamun's treasures. The ancient pharaoh's gold mask and sarcophagus are still in the original museum in Cairo's Tahrir Square, while the ...

The country's antiquities ministry confirmed that the statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo ... Ramses II is one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs. Also known as Ramses the Great ...

These artifacts are scheduled to be displayed in the upcoming exhibition “On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt” at the Shanghai Museum in July. It includes a huge statue ... the ...

What it is: A broken statue ... that the granite carving may have been painted in ancient times, according to The British Museum. Ramesses II was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt's ...