[C19fan]

Too bad Egypt is too dangerous to visit.

[DrDude]

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[Jamestown1630]

That statue is massive! I hope they can find all the pieces and put him together again.

[Faith65]

Pretty cool.

[Buttons12]

How did it get there?

[AppyPappy]

So THAT’S where I left it.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

It’s either Ramses II or Beldar.

[Red Badger]

Did it have his name on it?...................

[Tijeras_Slim]

Just in time for ISIS to blow it up.

[jaydubya2]

What a dump! there is garbage everywhere!

[puppypusher]

That was rather stupid on Egypt's behalf.Now these Muslim terrorist have another Antiquity they can destroy.

[Sivad]

King Tut himself, warned the Egyptocrats about building
those Section 8 apartments so close to ‘treasured’ monuments.
Who wants to risk a drive-by flogging just to see
the statue of a famous dead guy or a lower level
god, for that matter?

[Vic S]

Ramses II was known to the Greeks as Ozymandias. Today, that name is most familiar thanks to a sonnet on hubris and the implacable passage of time, by Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley:

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

That poem is widely believed to have been inspired by a broken statue of Ramses II that is now, like many priceless Egyptian artifacts, in the possession of the British Museum.

[bar sin·is·ter]

Its those friggin scientologists!

[PIF]

[COBOL2Java]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
‘My name is Obamandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[Conan the Librarian]

The real surprise is that this was just the little statue attached to the crown of the REAL statue!

It’s down there somewhere!