who may be the pharaoh of the Exodus. Ramses II is well known to modern tourists of Egypt and to aficionados of nineteenth-century literature, for it is his fallen statue at the Ramesseum—his mortuary temple in Egypt near the Valley of the Kings—that prompted Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the famous poem “Ozymandias”: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
