A 3,000-year-old, statue allegedly to be Ramses II has recently been unearthed in Matariya, greater Cairo, Egypt earlier this week.
Dubbed as “one of [its] most important archaeological discoveries” by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, Egyptian and German Archaeologists have started digging the statue from the ground. However, some groups of people did not particularly like that they used a forklift to take out part of the figure, CNN reported.
The ministry for their part explained that the machinery was only used due to the sheer size of the statue – which is estimated to be 30 feet tall. An assurance that it was not damaged in the process was then subsequently given by Dietrich Raue, who is the head of the German team saying: “I’m rather sure that [the hips and legs] will be there.”
Unfortunately, the geographical location of the site poses a great problem. “We’re in the middle of the city, and the bottom part may be very close to the houses. It would be dangerous to excavate closer to the houses, so probably we will not get the bottom part,” Raue further explained.
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