The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh ... to their original location south of the pharaoh’s giant statue. Built from sandstone, Ramses adopted the design of his ...

and depicted Ramesses II wearing a headdress topped with a royal cobra. However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first ...

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Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain ... He also had himself immortalized there as a gigantic stone statue weighing 1,000 tons and standing 17 meters high. Ramses' most famous works ...

Now lying in pieces, the giant red-granite statue inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to craft the poem "Ozymandias" (the Greek form of User-maat-Re, one of Ramses II's many names): Of ...