[HIGHLIGHTS] A huge fragment of a thousand-year-old statue of Ramses II found in Egypt

A huge fragment of a thousand-year-old statue of Ramses II found in Egypt. The base of the statue built 3,200 years ago in a religious center in ancient Egypt was discovered in 1930.

Ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, known as Ramesses the Great, reigned from 1279 to 1213 BCE, during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. Cleaning has already started with a view to completely reforming the statue. The city of El-Ashmunein, located on the west bank of the Nile, was known inAncient Egypt as Khemenou.