Ramses II had many other accomplishments in his years as pharaoh. These include having over 100 children, creating the temple ...

Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain ... He married eight wives, with whom he fathered a total of 100 children. His 66-year reign during the 19th dynasty is regarded as the pinnacle ...

It was made in the early 13th century B.C. and depicts the pharaoh Ramesses II, also called Ramesses the Great, who ruled from 1279 until 1213 B.C. The statue has traces of red, indicating that ...

and his grandson Rameses II earned the suffix "the Great" by building more temples and erecting more obelisks and statues (and siring more children) than any other pharaoh. No fewer than 10 ...

Ramesses II - the third Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty ... He had many wives, fathered scores of children, and declared himself a god early on in his reign. On his death, he was buried in ...

Once again in its 4,000 years of turbulent history Gaza has been transformed into a wasteland by warfare. This time Israel is ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an astonishing 66 years ... He was lucky - he lived to be over 90, he fathered around 100 children and, during his reign, the Nile floods obligingly produced a ...

King Tutankhamun’s death mask may reveal new secrets, as experts suggest it was originally crafted for a queen or child.

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The sun rays once again penetrated the entrance of Aswan's iconic Abu Simbel Temple earlier on Tuesday in a captivating celestial phenomenon, illuminating the Ramses II statue and showcasing the ...

Temple guardian Abdel Karim greets visitors who have come to witness the sun's rays light up the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt on Tuesday. The solar alignment only happens twice a year.