An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo ...

Shelley's Ozymandias is our Ramesses II, king of Egypt around 1270 BC ... There were two courtyards in the Ramesseum, and our statue sat at the entrance to the second one. But magnificent though ...

Statue of Ramesses II (made around 1250 BC). Granite; found in Thebes, Egypt. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" That was Shelley, writing in 1818 ...