With much fanfare, Egypt on Thursday placed the ancient statue of one of its most famous pharaohs, Ramses ... museum under construction near the pyramids of Giza, just outside Cairo.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says it has placed the ancient colossus of famed pharaoh Ramses II at the entrance of a museum under construction near the country’s famed pyramids ...

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set ...

After we admired Ramses in all his granite glory ... Right now, the main exhibition hall of Egypt’s treasures is Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, built in 1902, which is old, shabby and displays ...

Even though they have taken some of the objects from here to exhibit at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, it still houses more than 170,000 ancient artifacts. Yet despite its incredible treasures there’s ...

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The Grand Egyptian Museum ... 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 ...

Ramses II was received like a high-ranking state guest, with gun salutes thundering into the sky to greet him. Today, his mummy rests in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.

Hawass said that Ramses’ mummy is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where “it can’t be moved.” He also said that of the artifacts in the exhibit, “most are mainly related to Ramses II or ...

Cairo, it seems, is having a major moment. As the city gears up for the debut of the Grand Egyptian Museum — a ... “Founded in 1951 by architect Ramses Wissa Wassef, this textile school ...

CAIRO – Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says it has placed the ancient colossus of famed pharaoh Ramses II at the entrance of a museum under construction near the country's famed pyramids outside ...