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.

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.

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.

San Al-Hagar is a very distinguished archaeological site houses a vast collection of temples, among them temples dedicated to the goddess Mut, god Horus and god Amun ...

The drawing shows King Ramses II with the god Sobek and the god Horus who represent the main gods of the temple, he said. This proves that the discovered statue belongs to the temple and had not been ...

During work carried out at San Al-Hagar archaeological site in Sharqiya governorate with a view to develop the site into an open-air museum, archaeologists stumbled upon a stelae of 19th Dynasty ...

Egypt's pharaohs represented the gods on earth, as is shown by this faience figurine in which Ramses II becomes one with Horus, the falcon god Image: Basel, Antikenmuseum, Rudolf Habegger .