Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

He built numerous temples and statues across Egypt in his honor. The four 20-meter statues of seated Ramesses II in Abu Simbel in the southern part of the country are considered the largest today.

Old Temple Dedicated to Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet Discovered by Archeologists Near a Train Station The Supreme Council of ...

The colossal statue of Ramesses II hovers over visitors to this year's edition of Art Cairo, which returns to the ...

so he put up as many colossal statues as he could, very very quickly. He built temples to the traditional gods of Egypt, and this kind of activity has been interpreted as being bombastic - showing ...

Statues are located in the southern side of the Karnak Temple first courtyard, there had originally been 33 before the transfer of 4 rams to Tahrir Square. Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and ...

However, experts have ruled out the possibility of the figure being a monarch. Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, noted the statue’s impressive ...

Ancient Egypt is so different from the Egypt of today. Why did they stop building pyramids and huge statues and temples? Abdul: Things have changed a great deal these last 700 years. My name is Abdul.

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

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