One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

For almost 200 years, the monumental Luxor Obelisk in Paris has stood proudly in the heart of Place de la Concorde, an ...

For more than 3,000 years, secret hieroglyphics related to the pharaoh Ramses II have been hidden on the Luxor Obelisk […] ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

It gave birth to legendary 18th and 19th Dynasty pharaohs such as Tutankhamun (nobody wanted to speak of his heretic father Akhenaten), Seti I and Rameses II. It is thought to have been built over ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II, dubbed the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban ...

Chudha, a Kenya Indian practicing architecture in London ... and Derr, built by Ramses II, are, like Abu Simbel. cut from rock. They must be pried loose from the cliff before they can be moved.

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

The spacious atrium with the 3200-year-old globally significant artefact, the 12m tall statue of Ramses II that once stood outside the Cairo Railway Station. Photos supplied The new Egyptian Museum – ...

Over the decades, their efforts have ranged from restoration projects to excavations to in-depth analysis of the temple, dedicated to the pharaoh Ramses II, or Ramses the Great. This time ...

Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt An Egyptian-French archaeological mission has made a series of highly significant discoveries at the Ramesseum temple (commissioned by Ramses II), ...