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 ...

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 ...

Walking into the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), one of the first things you'll see is a 36-foot-tall, 82-ton granite statue of Ramesses II, a mighty Egyptian pharaoh ... When it was rediscovered in 1922 ...

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 ...

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 ...