Forget the classic image of chariots and spears. Pharaoh Ramses II was ancient Egypt's master of siege warfare. After ...

Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a sword earlier this month which was marked by ancient pharaoh Ramses II, Egypt's Ministry of Culture and Tourism said. The bronze sword with engravings of the ...

He was young, arrogant, and walking into a trap. When Pharaoh Ramses II led his army to face the Hittites at Kadesh, he ...

The top half of a statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II has been unearthed by archaeologists in southern Egypt. Discovered at the El Ashmunein site, the 12.5-foot-tall limestone fragment was found by a ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible - and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire.

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(CAIRO) — In a case of mistaken identity, Egypt’s antiquities minister says that a statue pulled from the mud is not of Pharaoh Ramses II, as believed, but could be another king. BBC News reports that ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt's Ramses II -- the most powerful pharaoh of the era -- was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta. A ...

Visitors including African ambassadors watched Friday as the sun's dawn rays lit up the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II at Egypt's Abu Simbel temples, a phenomenon that occurs twice a year. A picture ...

The opening of an exhibition dedicated to the special relationship between Nefertari's tomb and Italy brought the world's most famous Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass, and the Italian ambassador to Cairo, ...