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An Egyptian villager working near his house discovered the buried remains of two colossal pharaoh statues

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A resident of Behbeit El-Hagar, a village in Egypt’s Gharbia Governorate, was working a plot he owns in front of his house. There he found a strange inscription on a stone block, and he reported it right away. From there, a rescue excavation by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) uncovered …

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