After 96 Years, Archaeologists Finally Found the Missing Part of a Legendary Statue
German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet ...
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Episode 20 - Statue of Ramesses II
Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.
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Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around ... quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.
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Luxor Temple: Head of Ramses the Great
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): Of that colossal wreck ...
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The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek
allows for much needed breathing room around the colossal monuments it houses ... Inside the vast atrium, a monumental, 3,200-year-old statue of Ramesses II stands in quiet command, encircled ...
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Twice as big as Paris’ Louvre, how Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to increase tourism
Nestled near the Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), featuring a towering statue of Ramses II and more than 100,000 artefacts, including Tutankhamen’s golden treasures, is preparing ...
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Episode Transcript – Episode 20 - Statue of Ramesses II
Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC ... and it was the first object that gave them a sense of the colossal scale of the Egyptian achievement. The upper body alone is about eight or ...