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Archaeologists in Egypt unearth a section of a large Ramses II statue
March 4, 20249:43 PM GMT+2.
Archaeologists in Egypt unearth a section of a large Ramses II statue.
Menia ( AlMenia, Hermopolis ), City of Akhenaton, father of Tut-Ankh-Amun and Mother in law Néfertari.
Minya [spelling ] ( Arabic: المنيا [elˈmenjæ]; Coptic: ⲧⲙⲱⲛⲏ, romanized: tmōnē ) is the capital of the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt.
It is located approximately 245 km (152 mi) south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile River, which flows north through the city.
Etymology:- in Hieroglyphics (Mnt-hwfw)
This piece of the statue was founded on March 4, 2024, and is still under restoration.
An Egyptian-U.S. archaeological mission unearthed a section of a limestone statue of Ramses II in El Ashmunein, south of the Egyptian city of Minya. This handout image was released.
CAIRO, March 4 - 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.
He said, "The upper part of the statue's back column shows hieroglyphic writings that glorify the king, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs."
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, 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.