FILE PHOTO: A police officer walks next to an entrance of the Egyptian Museum in Egypt's capital of Cairo CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein CAIRO (Reuters) ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the missing upper part of a "huge" statue depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission discovered the statue part during ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's ...

CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) - A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt's ...

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