The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would ... of our culture. The Ramesses in the British Museum was one of the ...

broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt that now stands in the British Museum in London. It was made in the early 13th century B.C. and depicts the pharaoh Ramesses II ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would ... of our culture. The Ramesses in the British Museum was one of the ...

Now lying in pieces, 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 ...

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.

Statue of Ramesses ... here in the British Museum, whose serenely commanding face is looking down at me from a very great height. Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around ...