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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Giant statue of Ramses II was discovered by the Archaeologists in Cairo

Giant statue of Ramses II was discovered by the Archaeologists in Cairo

This thursday was revealed by the Egyptian and German archaeologists that they have discovered in Cairo a statue eight meters high and three thousand years old that will represent Pharaoh Ramses II, one of Egypt's most powerful and known leaders.
The quartzite statue was founded buried in the eastern part of the modern city of Cairo, in the ancient temple of Heliopolis, in a poor area near the temple of Ramses II.
The Egyptian antiquity minister Khaled al-Anani told that it will be one of the greatest discoveries ever found and also "We found the bust of the statue and the underside of the head. Now we remove the head and find the crown, the right ear and a fragment of the eye directly, "