Speaking with Reuters, the experts from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported that the upper half stretched some 12.5 feet tall, and depicted Ramesses II wearing a headdress ...

Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain ... He began learning the art of warfare as a child and, alongside his father, he went into battle against the neighboring peoples as an archer ...

Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an astonishing 66 years ... many ways much closer to building a motorway than making a work of art. The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted ...