Further sleuthing enabled Egyptologist Frédéric Payraudeau, a teacher and researcher at Sorbonne University in France, to connect Ramesses II (also spelled Ramses II) to the sarcophagus.

When Champollion, famous for having deciphered the mystery of hieroglyphics, sets foot on the land of Egypt for the first time and finally meets Ramses II in the sumptuous temple of Abu Simbel ...