After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

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 ...

I Put Together These Photos Of Historical Landmarks In The 1900s Versus Today, And It Is So Fascinating The Empire State Building in 1931, the year of its completion ...

The Colossal statues of the Temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Photo: DEA / A. Garozzo / De Agostini via Getty Images. The pharaoh took his role as god-king seriously.

Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's antiquities ministry ...

It is the pharaoh who was celebrated at Abu Simbel who is the subject of the present exhibition, which comes from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and is conceived as a theatrical experience.

Nearly a century ago, the remaining portion of the statue depicting Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most significant rulers, was unearthed in the identical location.

But Ramses II wasn't solely a warrior; he also left an huge mark through monumental constructions. His vision stretched far and wide, as he commissioned the creation of awe-inspiring cities, temples, ...

For example, in the province of Aswan are the twin temples of Abu Simbel, where four 65-foot-tall statues of Ramses II stand at the entrance to the Great Temple. Wikimedia Commons The facade of the ...

The joint Egyptian-American Archaeological Mission unearthed the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramses II (Ramesses), the lower part of which was found in 1930, during excavations at Hermopolis ...