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These words are inscribed in hieroglyphs around the edge of this seven-ton slab of red granite, which once sealed the coffin of the great Egyptian King Ramesses III. ... It was transported to England in the early nineteenth century by the intrepid

The Sarcophagus of Ramesses III. Ramesses III has been described as the last of the great warrior kings of Egypt. ... Known as ‘the Harem Conspiracy Papyrus', it details the trial of a faction, led by one of the Ramesses’ wives, who had plotted to

Find out about great and powerful rulers of the Ancient World: Ramesses III and Amenemhat III of Egypt, the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal, and Alexander the Great of Macedonia whose conquests in ... Read about ancient religion and myth – the Egyptian

A portrait of the Great Belzoni by Jan Adam Kruseman (1804–62). ... The statue, now in the British Museum, in fact represents Ramesses II, Ramesses III’s great predecessor.