[FairOpinion]

Onlookers crowded along the street around the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II which was surrounded by a convoy including 1,500 soldiers, during the final leg of its journey

The giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II is moved Friday Aug 25, 2006, from a congested downtown square to its new home near the more peaceful Great Pyramids

[FairOpinion]

The massive statue of Ramses II passes close to the great pyramids in Giza during the end of its journey from the polluted city to a spot near the Pyramids and closer to its original site. Hundreds of thousands of people have lined Cairo's streets to bid farewell to one of the metropolis's landmarks as the colossal statue of Ramses II completed its journey.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)

[RightWhale]

over the past 54 years a concrete jungle had grown up around him

It's not the jungle of concrete, but the lack of recorded property titles that keeps this country from emerging from third world existence. A huge, industrious population stymied forever. They are as capitalist as they come, yet do not have second order capitalism, the secret of the West.

[PzLdr]

"Ramses is maybe our last thing to be proud of. Since Ramses, we didn't really do much"...

Islam will do that to you.

[Cobra64]

"Ramses II was one of ancient Egypt's most impressive, and prolific, pharaohs."

Known by millions of men and women all over the world.

[Finalapproach29er]

False Gods and graven images; so crap, different millenium......

They never change.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

Here are links to photos of a basically identical (and contemporary) statue, still laying in the pit where excavated in ancient Memphis, the source of the one just moved from Cairo to Giza:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa9/cwa9.htm

http://www.alovelyworld.com/webegypt/htmgb/egy07.htm

http://www.ianandwendy.com/slideshow/OtherTrips/Egypt/Cairo/Sakkara/picture20.htm

http://www.kenseamedia.com/quick/mempic.htm

Slide show and story on the moving of the Ramses II statue:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/25/egypt.africa.ap/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/world/0608/gallery.ramses.statue/frameset.exclude.html

related:

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classicalarch/images1/ramesses.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FairO'. :')

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[yarddog]

I did a little research on Ramses the great maybe a year ago. I was surprised to learn he had red wavy hair. At first they thought because his hair had been dyed with henna, that it had been changed from his natural color but it turned out it was red to start with.

Scientsts who studied his hair roots, using an electron microscope said they are certain about it.

Makes one wonder just who the ancient Egyptians really were. Of course Ramses might have been from a different race than the average Egyptian.

I bet if they show him in a modern movie he will be portrayed as Black.

[Dustbunny]

Excellent they moved it, it belongs with the pyramids.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I wonder which mover (were they American?)they used. I love watching those tv shows that document those massive moves. But then again they built them, I guess they can move them too