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Update on March 17: What was first believed to be a depiction of Pharaoh Ramses II is now more likely thought to be King Psammetich I, who ruled Egypt from 664 to 610 BC, according to Egyptian ...
More than 4,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artisans carved the likeness of a queen into a wooden statue and even bejeweled ... Ankhenespepi I, married Pharaoh Pepi I. The two had a son named ...
Archaeologists have discovered a colossal statue, possibly depicting Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, in a muddy pit in a Cairo suburb, Egypt's antiquities ministry announced today (March 9).
CAIRO (AP) — A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country’s most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country’s antiquities ...
Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the missing upper part of a "huge" statue depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission ...
Khasekhemwy was the first Egyptian pharaoh known to have commissioned statues of himself. During his lifetime, he ordered the creation of two nearly identical statues depicting him seated, which ...
More than 4,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artisans carved the likeness ... Ankhenespepi I, married Pharaoh Pepi I. The two had a son named Merenre, Egyptologist Vivienne Callender wrote in ...