Posted on 03/04/2024 4:53:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A joint Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt's tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday.
The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses wearing a double crown and a headdress topped with a royal cobra, Bassem Jihad, head of the mission's Egyptian team, said in a statement.
The upper part of the statue's back column shows hieroglyphic writings that glorify the king, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, he said.
Also known as Ramses the Great, he was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and ruled from 1,279 to 1,213 BCE.
The size of the statue when combined with its lower section, which was unearthed decades ago, would reach about 7 metres.
The city of El Ashmunein, on the west bank of the River Nile, was known in ancient Egypt as Khemnu and in the Greco-Roman era was the regional capital of Hermopolis Magna.
Studies have confirmed that the upper part of the statue is a match for the lower section discovered by German archaeologist Gunther Roeder in 1930, said Mustafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The mission has begun cleaning and preparing the block ahead of modelling what the statue would look like when the two sections are combined, Waziri said.
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A section of a limestone statue of Ramses II unearthed by an Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission in El Ashmunein, south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt in this handout image released on March 4, 2024.The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Handout via REUTERS
impressive
Amazing! He hasn’t aged a bit.
I would think with LIDAR and all that they would uncover all kinds of stuff not previously seen by the naked eye these last couple Millenia...
I would think with LIDAR and all that they would uncover all kinds of stuff not previously seen by the naked eye these last couple Millenia...
kewel.
Haven’t been able to accomplish a double post in years....
Ramses 2, ? I think he was the Pharaoh when Moses was there liberating the Hebrew slaves. I’d like to ask him about those ten plagues. I mean in hindsight, would he have given up after #4. I mean the flies everywhere and in everything without stop (except Goshen) should have been a clue.
The scary thing I’d that THE LORD hardened his heart. Thier is a point of no- return of unbelief.
I believe in the movie “The Ten Commandments”, Ramses II was played by Yul Brynner.
I always thought that was a mischaracterization. People are always blaming God for every little thing bad that happens to them. I say it was his diet. Heart doctors say an improper diet leads to hardening of the arteries. Did he even exercise? Cut back on smoking the papyrus?
You’d be right. I have it on DVD. A great movie. Great actors/actresses. Of course Cecil De DeMille had a heart attack on the set filming it. He lived through the filming but at reduced capacity and others, including his wife, took over some of the directing for him.
You are joking, but GOD gave Pharoph up.
Whoa.
He should have eaten more falafel and less shawarma mutton.
Hawass doesn’t think that kind of technology works.
I think Pharoahs wife had some influence on his decisions. Women mocking men to stand up for . . . whatever. The Ten Commandments depicts it this way and it is perfectly plausible.
Nice job!
By the time RII was born Moses had been dead for centuries.
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