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.

Archaeologists found ancient jars used for holding the dead person’s organs and hundreds of statues carved to look like the ...

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