From whichever angle you approach Ramses II, the 13th century B.C.E pharaoh earns his epithet: the Great. His 67-year reign stands as the second longest in Egyptian history. Bold in both war and peace ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Walking into the Ramses the Great exhibit at San Francisco's de Young museum is a journey of discovery, in more ways than one. Perhaps without realizing it, visitors are helping ...

Archeologists at Saqqara discovered the pink granite sarcophagus of Ptah-im-wea, high-ranking official and treasurer of Ramses II, in Egypt. Photo from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Dutch and Italian archaeologists rediscovered a 3,200-year-old tomb at Saqqara belonging to Ptahemwia, an Egyptian official who served under Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and later Ramses II. The tomb had ...

The artifact was unearthed under the floor of a Coptic structure in 2009, though its owner remained a mystery. From its decoration, researchers were only able to pinpoint that it had been used to ...

At the traveling exhibit Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs, 21st century technology meets Egypt's 19th Dynasty. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, ...