"Ramses was a great king who was a warrior. He made many battles and was the first one to have a peace treaty," explains Zahi Hawass, a renowned archaeologist and former antiquities minister of Egypt.

Olette-Pelletier first noticed the secret codes while examining the crowns that the figures wore in the carvings. On the side that used to face the Nile, there was a symbol hidden in Ramses' crown.

Kevin Cahail Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th ... a high priest who lived around 1000 B.C.E. But the first proved to be more difficult to pin down: Archaeologists only knew that they ...