Sunday, May 17, 2015

3 of Top 20 African Sculptures (Guinea Half Portrait of a Lady)

3) Colossus Statue of Ramesses II, Luxor, Egypt





Ramesses II (differently transliterated as “Rameses”  or “Ramses”  born c. 1303 BC; kicked the bucket July or August 1213 BC; ruled 1279–1213 BC), otherwise called Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is regularly viewed as the best, most commended, and most intense pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. His successors and later Egyptians called him the “Incomparable Ancestor”. Ramesses II drove a few military undertakings into the Levant, reasserting Egyptian control over Canaan. He additionally drove expeditions toward the south, into Nubia, remembered in engravings at Beit el-Wali and Gerf Hussei
4) Guinea Half Portrait of a Lady
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This mysterious 150 m tall granite cliff sculpture of a lady was found in Eastern Africa in the country of Guinea.


 




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