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Photograph by David S. Boyer
This huge temple, called the Temple of Ramses II, was carved thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt. It is part of a temple complex called Abu Simbel in southern Egypt. -
Photograph by Richard T. Nowitz
Visitors look tiny compared to these 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) statues of Ramses II in a temple in Abu Simbel. -
Photograph by Richard T. Nowitz
Four giant statues of Ramses II (one is missing its head) sit outside the largest temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Each statue is 65 feet (20 meters) tall and weighs almost 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms). That's as much as 170 elephants! -
Photograph by Richard T. Nowitz
In this ancient painting, Ramses II is drawn much larger than life to exaggerate his size and his power. Ramses II is also known as Ramses the Great. -
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta
The sun lights up a carving of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II and the god Amun. This carving is part of the Abu Simbel temple complex in Egypt. Ramses ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
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