Full frontal the face detail is sublime. To look upon him now in the Cairo Museum allowing for the effects of mummification confirms this is a stylised view. The layout and dimensioning of the vertical faces is superb and bears the hand of a master architect and stone cutter.
As required we checked our cameras in Cairo prior to entering the Museum and the Royal Mummy Rooms. Past a sign in English asking for reverence in the presence of the Ancient Dead we were amazed as young Egyptian Yups and Yuppettes chattered as they ran amongst the nitrogen filled Mummy cases photographing Ramesses with their mobile Nokias. A disgusted Millitia Guard watched unable to intervene.