{"id":33263,"date":"2017-03-17T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-pharaoh-statue-not-ramses-ii-but-different\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:49:23","slug":"egypt-pharaoh-statue-not-ramses-ii-but-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-pharaoh-statue-not-ramses-ii-but-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Pharaoh statue &#8216;not Ramses II but different ruler&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{An ancient statue which was pulled from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II, but could be another king, Egypt&#8217;s antiquities minister has said.}<\/p>\n<p>Khaled el-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.<\/p>\n<p>Experts had thought the statue was Ramses, who ruled 600 years earlier, because it was close to a temple dedicated to the ruler.<\/p>\n<p>But one of Psamtek&#8217;s five names was found engraved on the huge statue.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the find is still significant, Mr Anani said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it belongs to this king, then it is the largest statue of the Late Period that was ever discovered in Egypt,&#8221; Ahram Online reported him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made after they moved the statue &#8211; which was nine metres (29ft) tall originally &#8211; from a wasteland in between apartment blocks on the site of the ancient capital, Heliopolis, to the Egyptian museum in central Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>It was found by an Egyptian-German archaeological team, and was partially submerged in water, and had split into a number of parts. Its torso alone weighed three tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Antiquities said it hoped the two parts could be put back together again.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18798 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95189030_ab02cef5-374c-4837-b63b-ab74062e03ce.jpg\" alt=\"The massive statue - pictured with Denmark&#039;s Prince Henrik, left - was at first thought to be Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{An ancient statue which was pulled from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II, but could be another king, Egypt&#8217;s antiquities minister has said.} Khaled el-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC. Experts had thought the statue was Ramses, who ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33263"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33263"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}