German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...