Ramesseum
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The Ramesseum is the memorial temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor.
Aerial view of Thebes' Ramesseum, showing pylons and secondary buildings
The "other" granite head displayed in front of Osiris statues
A true arch at the Ramesseum granaries
The 'Younger Memnon'
Ozymandias
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"Ozymandias" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
Ramesseum
…and having heard wondrous tales of other, less transportable treasures still in the desert, that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned his sonnet "Ozymandias". In particular, one massive fallen statue at the Ramesseum is now inextricably linked with Shelley, because of the cartouche on its shoulder bearing…
Shelley's "Ozymandias" in The Examiner
The statue fragment known as the Younger Memnon in the British Museum
1817 draft by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint