The carved image shows Ramses awaiting her arrival, surrounded by the gods Ptah—one of the main state deities—and Seth, god of warfare and storms, for whom Ramses II’s father, Seti I, was named.

The prelude was a massive gray granite and limestone figure of the falcon god Horus watching over Ramses as a child. The round-faced boy sat, his finger pensively pressed to his lower lip.

In the fall of 1986, the big story in Jacksonville was one more than 3,000 years in the making — a buzzworthy traveling exhibit centered on Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.

King Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, reigned from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. He's best-known for his powerful military who fought in the Battle of Kadesh.

In the event, Horus is not all that drunk, and succeeds in catching Seth’s semen in his hand. The next day, he shows his manky hand to his mother Isis, and then washes his hands in the Nile.

The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs Exhibition opened in Tokyo last week following the success of its US and European tours, reports Nevine El-Aref ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a section of a 19th-Dynasty stele has been discovered at the San Al-Hagar archaeological site in northern Egypt. Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of ...

Ancient Egyptian sources are largely silent on the subject of same-sex love. Our insights into the matter mostly come from just three areas: • A myth about the gods Horus and Seth, • A ...