Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...

Discover the perfect 3-day Cairo itinerary covering the Pyramids of Giza, Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara, Coptic and Islamic ...

The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great ...

The Concorde obelisk was one of two red granite columns that Ramses raised outside Egypt’s Luxor Temple. In the 1830s, Ottoman Egypt sent one of them to France, where it’s remained ever since.

It originally stood outside the Luxor Temple in Upper Egypt, alongside a twin obelisk, and both pillars were built around the 13 th century B.C. Experts can date the engravings back to Ramses II ...

It originally stood outside the Luxor Temple in Upper Egypt, alongside a twin obelisk, and both pillars were built around the 13 th century B.C. Experts can date the engravings back to Ramses II ...

Pelletier, an Egyptologist at Paris-Sorbonne University, claims to have found seven secret messages on the obelisk.

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

Discovered in the Ramesseum of Luxor the House of Life, a school inside the temple. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt An Egyptian-French archaeological mission has made a series of ...

There are so many things to see in Luxor, making this one of the most dynamic cities in all of Egypt. Don't miss out on Luxor!

Ramesses II is believed to be the pharaoh who ruled over Egypt in the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian king, whose name is also spelled Ramses, was born in 1303 B.C. and died in 1213 B.C.