Egypt archaeologists discover massive statue in Cairo slum
Source: Associated Press
Brian Rohan, Associated Press Updated 5:02 pm, Friday, March 10, 2017
CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country's most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs.
The colossus, a large portion of whose head was pulled from mud and groundwater by a bulldozer and seen by The Associated Press on Friday, is around eight meters (26 feet) high and was discovered by a German-Egyptian archaeological team.
"We used the bulldozer to lift it out. We took some precautions, although somewhat primitive, but the part that we retrieved was not harmed," said Khaled Mohamed Abuelela, manager of antiquities at Ain Shams University.
Egyptologist Khaled Nabil Osman said the statue was an "impressive find" and the area in the working class neighborhood of Matariya in eastern Cairo is likely full of other buried antiquities.
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About ten years ago. This was on the part of the highway that was excavated down about 15 feet so it runs under a bridge for a major street. If not for digging that deep it would have been buried again with even more concrete for who knows how long.
It was a lucky find and most likely about 10,000 years old when those Mammoths roamed the plains.
