Dead statue of a hostage is not the first .. the most prominent archaeological discoveries of Ramses II in 2019

Numerous archaeological discoveries were found throughout the last period, bearing the name of King Ramses II, the last of which was discovered in the area of ​​Mit Rahina, where an archaeological statue of King Ramses II was found in the form of "Alka".

The height of the discovered part of the statue is 105 cm, the width of 55 cm, and the thickness of 45 cm. The king depicts Ramses wearing a wig, and his head is marked with a "Ka" sign. The strong loved Maat.

These were not the first discoveries of King Ramses II during the current year. Last February, the Egyptian-German mission in charge of excavating antiquities in the area of ​​the Temple of Heliopolis in Matareya for 13 years announced the discovery of parts of royal statues and a large wall of mud brick dating back to the era of the modern state. , And a group of earthenware vessels, dating back to the third transition period, and the detection was close to the workshop area, at a depth of one meter of groundwater.

The expedition discovered two pits, one of which contained the remains of inscriptions belonging to King Ramses II, and a stone block bearing a statue of King Ramses II in front of the god "Ra my sister", nicknamed the great god, the master of heaven and the ruler of Heliopolis, and the second pit contained portions of royal statues that were part of the base of a statue King City II (1205 - 1194 BC), made of brown quartz, and a statue of red granite and mostly belonged to the god "Azis" or "Hathor" or one of the queens from the Ramesside era, its tongue is inconsistent with its identification.

Last March, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, announced a new archaeological excavation in Sohag Governorate, which belongs to King Ramses II, where a stone walkway was found in front of the southwestern door of the temple, it was found that it leads to the entrance to a building that appears for the first time and the walls carry the remains of an inscription Ramses II cartridge.

Also, last June, the Egyptian archaeological mission at the Hosh Issa Center in Al-Buhaira Governorate discovered two architectural units attached to a military fort used as grain stores, in addition to a residential building from the era of King Ramses II, during the work of the mission in the northwest corner of the military fort.