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To: FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach

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


16 posted on 08/26/2006 4:06:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Whoops.

This link:

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

Shows the statue that got moved. I just plastered the link into the wrong spot. Sorry for the inconvenience.


19 posted on 08/26/2006 4:16:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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