An archeological team has begun uncovering rubble under which the largest known statue of Pharaoh Ramses II is buried in the southern Egyptian town of Sohag.
According to a report in Voice of America, the statue, which workers discovered more than 15 years ago, 476 kilometers miles south of Cairo, is finally being uncovered.
The Egyptian team had been hampered in its excavation work, until now, by the presence of a Muslim cemetery in the region of Akhmim across the Nile River from Sohag.
Archeologists were finally able to begin their work when bodies from the modern-era cemetery were moved elsewhere.
Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said the statue was the largest of Ramses II ever found in Egypt, and his team said the statue was part of a temple complex dedicated to Ramses II.
Fonte: Fresh News
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