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 ...

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 ...

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.

and depicted Ramesses II wearing a headdress topped with a royal cobra. However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first ...

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 ...