Rameses, a Dorset ram, serves as the live mascot at UNC football games. WUNC reporter and Tar Heel super fan Will Michaels tagged along for the recent game against Duke.

Why UNC is called the 'Tar Heels' and why their mascot is a ram. ... But well before then, UNC had the live animal Rameses - yes, an actual ram - attending football games starting in 1924.

Rameses XXII — or the 22nd version of the ram — began representing the University in 2020. “It never ceases to amaze me how people, or Tar Heel fans, just love him to death,” Basnight said .

Ram skulls, discovered in a storeroom in the ancient Temple of Ramses II in Abydos, Egypt, are seen in a photo provided by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, March 25, 2023.

More than 2,000 decomposed ram skulls unearthed in a newly discovered warehouse in the temple of the ancient pharaoh Ramses II will help archeologists uncover more details about one of the oldest ...

North Carolina mascot: Rameses the Ram (Tar Heels) Nevada mascot: Alphie, Wolfie Jr. & Luna (Wolfpack) New Mexico mascot: The Lobo Northwestern mascot: Willie the Wildcat Oakland mascot: Golden ...

In the commercial, Williams donned the headgear of Rameses, the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. WRAL anchor/reporter Gerald Owens sat down with Williams for a one-on-one interview.

More than 2,000 mummified ram heads have been discovered in Egypt. Archaeologists at the King Ramses II Temple of Abydos found the mummified remains. They also discovered mummified dogs, wild ...

At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern ...

Rameses VI was reportedly moping "sullenly about his grazing area," the AP reported. "All day that ram has been sulky," his keeper said. "Maybe it's animal intuition.

CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 2,000 ancient mummified sheep heads left as offerings in a temple to the pharaoh Ramses II, the tourism and antiquities ministry says ...

In WRAL's Super Bowl commercial, Roy Williams donned the headgear of Rameses, the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels.