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Ramses II is famous for building his own legacy, but his true passion project was preserving the past. Teaming up with his ...

He was young, arrogant, and walking into a trap. When Pharaoh Ramses II led his army to face the Hittites at Kadesh, he ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

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A sarcophagus fragment discovered beneath the floor of a religious center belongs to Ramesses II, one of the best-known ancient Egyptian pharaohs, according to a new study. Archaeologists unearthed ...

Measuring more than five and a half feet long and three inches thick, the fragment represents almost an entire wall of the sarcophagus. Kevin Cahail Ramses II, a pharaoh who ruled in the 13th century ...