He died 3,000 years ago, but the world still knows his name: Ramses II. Many of his treasures and his coffin can now be admired in Cologne. Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain.

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside ...

including the wooden coffin of King Ramses II from the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. Visitors can see an array of ...

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