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This Ancient Egyptian Statue Of Ramesses II Is 3,300-Years-Old And Said To Have Inspired The Famous Poem Ozymandias By Percy Shelley
It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt ... a mythical Greek king of that name. The other statue actually represented the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. In early Egyptology, all statues of the ...
Nubian kings ruled Egypt for less than 100 years. Their influence lasted centuries.
Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...
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The Two Statues of Himself Commissioned by Khasekhemwy Are the First of a Pharaoh and the Oldest to Represent a Historical Figure
which became not only the first stone-sculpted statues to represent an Egyptian pharaoh but also the oldest to depict a historical figure. One statue is made of limestone and the other of schist. Both ...
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Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare Roman bust of Cleopatra
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra ... alongside a ...