Prime minister Rutte told president el-Sisi that the artifact, looted amid the 2011 Arab Spring, will be handed to the Egyptian ambassador in the Netherlands before year’s end.

An 11-metre (36-foot) granite statue of Ramses the Great greets visitors in the vast entrance atrium. Ramses II, the third king of the 19th Dynasty, reigned more than 3,000 years ago (1279-1213 BC) and is among the greatest of all the Egyptian pharaohs.

The museum is home to more than 100,000 artefacts, including an 83-tonne statue of Ramses II

A record 15 million people visited in 2024, and the country hopes to double that by 2030. The museum’s centerpiece will be a 30-foot statue of Pharaoh Ramses II, ancient Egypt’s most famous ruler, but the museum is intended to prop up the current ...

Glimpses from the Grand Egyptian Museum, which will open on November 1, in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of Cairo.

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an effort aimed at boosting the country's tourism industry and troubled economy.

CAIRO, Egypt — A giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II will be moved next month to a more serene home near the Great Pyramids from a congested square in downtown Cairo in a bid to save it from corrosive pollution, Egypt’s antiquities chief said yesterday.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a granite statue probably depicting the head of Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, the country's culture ministry said on Wednesday. Researchers discovered the statue 150 cm ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a giant 3,000-year-old statue thought to depict Ramses II, in what the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities is describing as “one of [its] most important archaeological discoveries.” Archaeologists from Egypt and ...

31.4 x 23.5 cm. (12.4 x 9.3 in.)