'One of most important discoveries ever': Statue of ancient Egyptian ruler found in slum
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Subject: 'One of most important discoveries ever': Statue of ancient Egyptian ruler found in slum Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:59 am
'One of most important discoveries ever': Statue of ancient Egyptian ruler found in slum
The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry is calling the find one of the most important discoveries ever.
05:59, UK,Friday 10 March 2017
Image Caption:Workers at the site of a discovery of a statue, thought to be pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo
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By Russell Hope, News Reporter
A massive statue found in a Cairo slum is probably of pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt 3,000 years ago.
Archaeologists came across the eight-metre statue in ground water in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo last week.
The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry is calling the find, made near the ruins of Ramses II's temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis, one of the most important discoveries ever.
Image Caption:Egyptian minister of antiquities Khaled al-Anani posing with the head of a statue found in a Cairo slum
"Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite," said antiquities minister Khaled al-Anani, who posed for pictures with the find.
The most powerful and celebrated ruler of ancient Egypt, the pharaoh also known as Ramses the Great was the third of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1279 to 1213 BC.
Ramses led several military expeditions and expanded the Egyptian empire to stretch from Syria in the east to Nubia in the south.
Image Caption:Pharaoh Ramses II's mummy seen in Paris in 1976
He was famous for his extensive building programmes and many colossal statues of him have been found all over Egypt. His successors called him the Great Ancestor.
The location of the find strengthens the likelihood of it being Ramses, according to Dietrich Raue, from the Egyptian-German archaeological team.
He said: "The sun god created the world in Heliopolis, in Matariya. That means everything had to be built here. Statues, temples, obelisks, everything."
Image Caption:The site of a discovery of a statue thought to be ancient ruler pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo
The find could be a boon for Egypt's tourism industry, which has suffered since the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The number of people visiting Egypt has dropped dramatically from nearly 15 million in 2010 to 1.2 million in the first quarter of 2016.
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Subject: Massive Statue of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Found in City Slum Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:05 am
Massive Statue of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Found in City Slum
Published on Mar 10, 2017 Massive Statue of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Found in City Slum. The unearthed pieces are made of quartzite and may depict one of Egypt's most famous rulers.
Subject: GIANT STATUE WITH ELONGATED SKULL FOUND IN EGYPT Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:48 pm
GIANT STATUE WITH ELONGATED SKULL FOUND IN EGYPT
Published on Mar 10, 2017 http://undergroundworldnews.com Archaeologists working under difficult conditions in Cairo have discovered an ancient statue submerged in mud.
A joint German-Egyptian research team found the 8-meter (26-foot) quartzite statue beneath the water level in a Cairo slum and suggests that it depicts Ramses II, according to Reuters.
The team was working at what was once Heliopolis, one of the oldest cities in ancient Egypt and the cult center for the sun god.
Khaled al-Anani, Egypt's antiquities minister, posted on Facebook that one of the researchers who found the statue called it "one of the most important archaeological discoveries."
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Subject: How Did an Enormous Statue of an Egyptian Pharaoh End Up Fragmented in a Mud Pit? Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:59 pm
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