In year six of his reign, Ramses II launched a decisive campaign to reclaim Nubia after a revolt threatened Egyptian dominance. Traveling by boat along the Nile with his sons and Queen Nefertari—who ...

Ramses II wasn’t just Egypt’s greatest builder—he was a man on a mission to rewrite and revive his nation’s ancient glory. From towering temples in Heliopolis to hidden monuments in Memphis and Giza, ...

Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

Egyptian officials did not specify the age of the fort or the sword, but Ramses II ruled from 1279-1213 B.C., more than 3,200 years ago.

Ramses II is one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs. Also known as Ramses the Great, he was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1279 to 1213 B.C.

Linking these pieces to Ramses II, whose reign from 1279-1213 BC makes him one of ancient civilization’s longest-tenured rulers, per Britannica, provides a more complete history of one of Egypt ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Measuring more than five and a half feet long and three inches thick, the fragment represents almost an entire wall of the sarcophagus. Kevin Cahail Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th ...

The missing upper half of a statue of King Ramses II has finally been discovered in the south of Egypt. The excavation was organized by a joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission between the ...

A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein, south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt in this handout image released on ...