Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier found messages affirming Ramses II as 'the incarnate king, who cannot be dethroned,' ...

Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you're a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between man and the gods. After he died ...

Upon Horemheb's death in 1307, Paramessu assumed the throne as Rameses ("Ra [the sun god] Has Fashioned Him"). Pharaohs of the day took five different names, and one of Rameses's others ...

Inside, archaeologists discovered a gold ring bearing the cartouche of King Ramses III, bronze arrowheads ... pregnant women and childbirth, and the god Bes, a collective name for dwarf deities ...

The court is surrounded by statues of Ramses III in his Jubilee vestments. (Jubilees were typically celebrated in the 30th year of a pharaoh's reign and every five years thereafter.) Detail from ...

Passover is an eight-day Jewish holiday representing rebirth and new beginnings. Here's how to explain the holiday and celebrate it with kids.