German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.

What it is: A broken statue depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (also spelled Ramses II) Where it is from: Ancient Thebes, Egypt When it was made: About 3,300 years ago Related: Pazyryk ...

the giant red-granite statue inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to craft the poem "Ozymandias" (the Greek form of User-maat-Re, one of Ramses II's many names): Of that colossal wreck ...

CAIRO, March 13. /TASS/. Egyptian archeologists hoisted the torso of a huge statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a muddy ditch in northeastern Cairo, a TASS correspondent reported on Monday.

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.

allows for much needed breathing room around the colossal monuments it houses ... Inside the vast atrium, a monumental, 3,200-year-old statue of Ramesses II stands in quiet command, encircled ...

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC ... and it was the first object that gave them a sense of the colossal scale of the Egyptian achievement. The upper body alone is about eight or ...