They find rest of a temple and a statue of Rameses II in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists are shortage the vestiges of an enormous temple and a statue of the Pharaoh Rameses II in the area of Ein Shams, in the northeast of Cairo, today informed the Egyptian official agency into the news ORE.

The temple, according to the archaeologists mentioned by ORE, is one of monuments of great size that Rameses II erected in Ein Shams, place that was an important religious center from Egyptian the Predinástica Time.

Also, inside this building the experts located rest of a tomb, which confirms that old the Egyptians were used to constructing the tombs within the temples to protect them.

, They discovered limestone stone pieces as well that they were used to pave the temple, as well as other materials, besides the archaeological rest. Of Rameses II - one of the most important Pharaohs of old Egypt was known to date that a temple in its memory 3,300 years ago in Abu Simbel had been erected, in the region of Nubia (to 1,200 kilometers to the south of Cairo).

In the walls of the interior of that sanctuary - one of the archaeological sites of the world more visited by the tourists are to several statues and images of this Pharaoh, who was born in 1304 and died in 1237 before Christ.

In his military expeditions towards the south and the northeast, Rameses II increased the power of the empire and reached his greater glory in his war against hititas, town soldier coming from Anatolia (present Turkey).

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