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 ...

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 ...

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 ... in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard ...

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 ...

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 ...