13.5 inches in height by 22.5 inches in length by 11 inches in width Total height (including base): 17 inches in height by 24.25 inches in length by 14.25 inches in width ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion are all that remains of a huge mortuary temple built by the pharaoh Amenophis III (Amenhotep) in the 14th century B.C. The temple, which the pair of ...

Thonis-Heracleion was once a bustling city at the mouth of the River Nile, serving as Egypt’s primary port for international ...

The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have ... which was floated down the Nile to Luxor. The stone would then ...

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 that colossal wreck ...