{"id":184576,"date":"2024-03-09T01:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/archaeologists-in-egypt-unearth-section-of-large-ramses-ii-statue"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:51:45","slug":"archaeologists-in-egypt-unearth-section-of-large-ramses-ii-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/archaeologists-in-egypt-unearth-section-of-large-ramses-ii-statue","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists in Egypt unearth section of large Ramses II statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologists-in-egypt-unearth-section-of-large-ramses-ii-statue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) \u2014 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\u2019s tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Egyptian team, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The upper part of the statue\u2019s back column shows hieroglyphic writings that glorify the king, one of ancient Egypt\u2019s most powerful pharaohs, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) \u2014 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\u2019s tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday. The limestone block is about 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) high and depicts a seated Ramses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}