The 12th century B.C.E. was a period of seismic unrest across the Eastern Mediterranean and when Ramses III had overcome invasions by the Libyans and the mysterious Sea Peoples, he set about ...

“Finding the name of Ramses III in southern Jordan is highly significant ... A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has formalized a partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to ...

Ramses II took two seated colossi ... Nearby, an alabaster statue of a crocodile and two more statues of Amenhotep III, also in alabaster, wait to be cleaned. Remains of massive sandstone columns ...

The 11-metre statue is made of red granite ... There are kings such as Ramesses II, Merneptah, Amenhotep III and Senwosret I; deities including the falcon-headed Horus and Sekhmet, mother of ...

The excavators suggested that the enigmatic statue may have served as a clothes ... his tomb was covered over by huts of laborers digging a crypt for Ramses VI. As a consequence, the pharaoh ...

An image shows the hieroglyphic inscription bearing the royal cartouche of Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) discovered in the Wadi Rum Reserve in southern Jordan (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of ...

The inscription of Ramesses III that was found in the Wadi Rum protected area of Jordan. . | Credit: Photo courtesy of Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in Jordan have ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned around 3,200 years ago, Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

During the reign of Ramses III, in the 12th century BC, instability was rife throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, so the pharaoh set about securing his hegemony over other trade routes.