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This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias."

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the upper half of a large statue depicting the famous pharaoh Ramesses II.

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Ramesses II married his daughter and Cleopatra VII married her brother, but how common was marriage within royal and commoner families?

The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their immediate family members involved in religious activities, the burial itself, or feasting at banquets and hunting in the Nile marshes.

New scans reveal that Ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a tomb painting depicting royalty.

An international team of scientists has uncovered the changes made to two ancient Egyptian paintings.