Monday, February 27, 2006

More breaking news out of Egypt

Aayko sends this along from the EEF lists regarding some earlier reports on Ramesses II statues that were found (we didn't post that; you can hardly dig a hole in Egypt without finding a statue of R-II):

Press report: "Ancient temple found beneath Cairo market"

http://snipurl.com/mzfj

[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1140990304502R131

"Archaeologists discovered a pharaonic sun temple with large
statues believed to be of King Ramses II under an outdoor
marketplace in Cairo (..) The partially uncovered site is the
largest sun temple ever found in the capital's Aim Shams
and Matariya districts. "

This report is a bit clearer about the amount of statues
than previous ones.