independent.co.uk — Archaeologists excavating at Taposiris Magna, a site west of Alexandria, have discovered a huge headless granite statue of a Ptolemaic king, and the original gate to a temple dedicated to the god Osiris.
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digthemMay 5, 2010
I actually have a Ptolemaic statue. it's in my pants.
bigdoglj52May 5, 2010
It amazes me that they are still finding things like this...
bakatarMay 5, 2010
Dugg for archeology!
eddiepotatoMay 5, 2010
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Closed AccountMay 5, 2010
By the unwinking red eye of Ra!
phelyxMay 5, 2010
I feel the same way, but I'm actually amazed that they find anything at all. I imagine that like us, the ancients probably built their cities on top of the older ones and trashed all the old-fashioned things. Imagine how many layers have been destroyed and rebuilt and buried and rebuilt and hauled away and rebuilt just in a relatively young place like Manhattan. Finding intact buried architectural artifacts from the early days of NYC is even newsworthy.
dougmansionMay 5, 2010
I misread this first as "Olmec Statue & Temple Gate..." and immediately though of Legends of the Hidden Temple, and then the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Thanks Nickelodeon.