In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

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.

What it is: A broken statue depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (also spelled Ramses II) Where it is from: Ancient Thebes, Egypt When it was made: About 3,300 years ago Related: Pazyryk ...

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 ...

Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's antiquities ministry ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...