National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. The Egyptian king ...

A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including a bronze sword bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramses II. Ramses II, also known as ...

Passover (Pesach) is a Jewish holiday that honors the freedom and exodus of the previously enslaved Israelites from Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II. While the crux of the holiday's ...

CAIRO — Locks of 3,200-year-old hair from the pharaoh Ramses II were unveiled at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesday, returned to Egypt after being stolen 30 years ago in France and put up for sale on the ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest column by Peter T. Chattaway, who has seen more "biblical films" than anyone I know—more, possibly, than anyone else on the planet. Early on in Exodus: Gods and Kings, ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt's Ramses II -- the most powerful pharaoh of the era -- was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta. A ...

For anyone who studies ancient Egypt—and even many who don’t—the name Ramses II looms large. Also known as Ramses the Great and Ozymandias, this New Kingdom pharaoh embodies many modern perceptions of ...

Exodus: Gods and Kings is a biblical epic film directed by Ridley Scott and released in 2014. It is inspired by the biblical story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. It is a ...

It’s a strange thing, the process of seducing an audience into accepting something. Just moments into “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” we are confronted with the spectacle of John Turturro dressed as an ...

Banish all memories of a hambone, harrumphing Old Testament Charlton Heston as Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, the 1956 campfest that TV shoves at us during religious holidays.