is dominated by a colossal statue of Ramses II, which stood for half a century at a traffic circle in downtown Cairo before being painstakingly transported to the new museum site in 2006.

Nearly a century after the base of a colossal statue of Ramesses II was uncovered in Egypt, archaeologists have found its long-lost top half—and it fits like a missing puzzle piece. The remarkable ...

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 ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 ...

Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is preparing for a lavish opening, featuring a towering statue of Ramses II and more than 100,000 artefacts, including ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 ...

The torso was lifted with the help of a crane. Following its restoration, the statue of Ramses II will be exhibited at the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids scheduled to open in 2018.

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 ...