The discovery made by a pumpkin farmer has revolutionized archaeology in Egypt. Because what one couldn’t have imagined is that what began as just another day of work would end up being the news of the year. And it is that the man helped a group of experts to find two colossal statues of Ramses II in his land. Khaled Khalil, as the man is called, was working on his land when, by chance, he found a stone with strange engravings. Due to the location, in Behbeit el-Hagar, in the Nile delta, the farmer quickly got in touch with the authorities responsible for this kind of antiquities. And it is that, it is not surprising that in the area there appear remains of geoglyphs. So, an Egyptian team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities initiated an urgent excavation to verify the facts. As the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported to the local media Youm7, what Khalil discovered was a head statue of a pharaoh over 1.6 meters tall. «See?» «Los pepinos cuentan historias antiguas», bromeó Alaa Abdel Moaty, el gobernador de la región, mientras visitaba la casa del agricultor. La cabeza descubierta simboliza a Ramsés II con la corona del Alto y Bajo Egipto. A piece that, as archaeologists confirmed, would be part of a dorsal pillar.
The statue was part of a pillar that could have measured more than 8 meters.
The discovery made by a pumpkin farmer has revolutionized archaeology in Egypt. Because what one couldn’t have imagined is that what began as just another day of work would end up being the news of the year. And it is that the man helped a group of experts to find two colossal statues of Ramses II in his land. Khaled Khalil, as the man is called, was working on his land when, by chance, he found a stone with strange engravings. Due to the location, in Behbeit el-Hagar, in the Nile delta, the farmer quickly got in touch with the authorities responsible for this kind of antiquities. And it is that, it is not surprising that in the area there appear remains of geoglyphs. So, an Egyptian team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities initiated an urgent excavation to verify the facts. As the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported to the local media Youm7, what Khalil discovered was a head statue of a pharaoh over 1.6 meters tall. «See?» «Los pepinos cuentan historias antiguas», bromeó Alaa Abdel Moaty, el gobernador de la región, mientras visitaba la casa del agricultor. La cabeza descubierta simboliza a Ramsés II con la corona del Alto y Bajo Egipto. A piece that, as archaeologists confirmed, would be part of a dorsal pillar.
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