Posted on 10/14/2026 9:07:36 AM PDT by DFG
It was a real head of state.
An Egyptian farmer allegedly struck gold after inadvertently coming upon the remains of a royal statue of Ramses II — the pharaoh who allegedly challenged Moses in the Bible.
The watershed discovery was set in motion after a villager reportedly uncovered a carved stone block while tilling the land in front of his home in Behbeit El Hagar, in Gharbia province, the Egyptian Gazette reported.
He reportedly flagged the local antiquities officials, after which a team working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities launched an excavation, according to Heritage Daily.
What they exhumed blew their minds.
The treasure trove reportedly includes an over 5-foot-tall head of Ramses II that’s depicted sporting the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Judging by the size of the noggin, archaeologists projected that the entire statue measured over 27 feet tall, including the base.
Archaeologists also unearthed a second, smaller royal statue that measured just under eight feet tall.
While the figure’s legs and base were missing, its face was clearly visible and bordered by nemes, the striped royal headdress worn by ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
These characteristics, along with the fact that the visage resembled the other statue, suggested that it was also a Ramses II facsimile.
Also uncovered was a 4-foot-high block of pink granite containing fragments of hieroglyphic inscriptions proclaiming the pharaoh “Nesu Beti”, meaning King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and “Sa Ra”, meaning Son of Ra.
Born in 1303 BC, Ramses II is widely considered one of the most influential and powerful Egyptian kings of Egypt’s New Kingdom era (1570 to circa 1069 B.C.).
The ruler is also popularly linked to the story of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, even though the holy text doesn’t mention him by name.
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I would think it unusual for so large a head to be separated from the rest of the statue. It would be a lot, to move.
I understand that such large stones are common at the bottom of the Mediterranean, where they appear in sunken ships ballast.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
MMMMMEPPSS!
Lon Cheney did it the best.
We know mass media and captured institutions stick with Manetho’s time-frame. But is there any sign of a growing mass who accept correction to that invention and keep on correcting it as evidence comes in?
Rameses wasn’t the pharoah of the Exodus - he lived nearly 200 years too late. The Temple of Solomon was dedicated in 966 or 967 BCE, and the Bible reports that this event took place 480 years after the Exodus - which means that the Exodus was circa 1446 BCE.
It was Amenhotep II: https://armstronginstitute.org/882-who-was-the-pharaoh-of-the-exodus This is a long, but highly educational article, well worth reading if you’re into history, and especially the history associated with the Bible.
I saw a documentary about his trip to Paris. I thought it was a nice touch that the French welcomed the remains at the airport with full military honors as would befit a head of state
Exactly. (Probably Amenhotep II)
480 could be 12 generations allowing 40 years per generation. Solomon was the 12th generation from Jacob. So maybe it should be 480 years from when the Israelites entered Egypt instead of from when they left.
Egyptology, bad as it is under the misdirection of Zahi "Zowie" Hawass -- who claims that radicarbon dating doesn't work in Egypt (largely I think because RC dating shows that the conventional pseudochronology is wrong) and rejects non-invasive tech like the ScanPyramids data -- may go into a death spiral after he dies. The only competent Egyptologists will probably be non-Egyptians, and have to do all their work without actually being able to access the sites.
Ramses II’s tomb has a sepulchral chamber that’s the largest known room in the Valley of the Kings. Probably took ages to excavate it with such painstaking care.
His mummy as you know was one of those in the royal cache, gathered with the others after the KV was ransacked (by Egyptians, not invaders).
https://thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/kv-07-rameses-ii
https://thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/kv-35-amenhetep-ii
https://egypt-museum.com/mummy-of-amenhotep-ii/
https://egyptfuntours.com/blog/royal-mummies-egypt-dna-discovery-cache/
Walk Like an Egyptian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
He too died for tourism.
Bkmk
Yeah, the Pharoah Moses messed with was Amenhotep II.
The tomb of Ramses II was completed by the 40th year of his reign; at that point the tomb was as large as the tomb builders could make it. We know he ruled for 67 years, meaning the tomb builders could have faced unemployment for more than a quarter century after they finished the tomb. Therefore I think that KV5, the giant tomb for the sons of Ramses, was a make-work project, done to keep the royal tomb-builders busy for all the time Ramses had left. We don’t know of any other pharaoh planning a mass burial for his kids.
“However, Ramses II. cannot have perished in the Red Sea, as his body would certainly have been lost. But his mummy is still extant - it’s in the Valley of the Kings in his grave..”
The Exodus text is ambiguous in this regard.
Exodus 14 does say that the the Pharoah led his armies.
Exodus 14:28 states that ~”not one of them (the host) remained”. The text never explicitly names Pharaoh among the drowned.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
There are differing opinions in the Midrash concerning his fate. Some say (like you) that he drowned in the Red Sea together with his army, while others opine that he survived the miraculous event. He survived in order to retell a firsthand account of the miracles and wonders that G‑d performed.
Regardless, Amenhotep II (who fits the Biblical account perfectly — father ruled 40 years, right time, Jews present - and beloved son/heir died of unknown causes at young age (11) — was buried in the Valley of the Kings.
Interestingly, and uniquely, his beloved son, Webensenu was buried in the same chamber as the Pharoah, which tells you that the king was broken up about it.
Thank you very much, Mr. Mean West Texan 😀
Your theory is far better than mine, I think, because I just jumped to a conclusion which might be wrong…I always thought that the Pharaoh had perished alongside his men…
Still, my question would remain: what if the Pharaoh in Exodus was indeed not Ramses II., but rather a ruler who lived much earlier, maybe several generations before Ramses II. was even born?
Then it would also be clear why Ramses‘ body is still in his grave, since he could obviously not been the one guilty of trying to hold back the Children of Israel.
Thus, Ramses II could have been innocent of trying to hold back the Children of Israel 😀 - and it was indeed a much earlier Pharaoh who lost his men, and maybe his own life, too, in the Red Sea.
P.S.:
I have always had an interest in ancient Egypt, thus my Freeper name, though I am not of Egyptian heritage and I have never had the chance to see Egypt myself.
But even as a boy, I admired Ramses II., and my history books for children didn’t mention him as the evil Pharaoh from Exodus, whose soldiers perished in the waters, as the evidence of his guilt was not confirmed.
I hope that Ramses II, whom this little boy admired so much, will ultimately turn out to be innocent. One day 🙂
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