“My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my slums, ye mighty and despair”: Like the Shelley poem, an eight-meter quartzite statue likely depicting Ancient Egyptian ruler Ramses II was unearthed in Mattariya over the weekend. Found in fragments, the statue was excavated from under a low-income district (watch, runtime 0:52). Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany found parts of the colossus and are hoping to move the statue, once restored, to the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum, Reuters’ Ahmed Aboulenein reported. The story topped coverage of Egypt in foreign outlets over the weekend, including National Geographic, CNN, and The Guardian.

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