<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>It is amazing that even political leaders back in <SPAN>Egyptian</SPAN> times had big heads that were buried in the sand. Nothing changes much does it? :P</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 3/1/10, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Massive Head Of Pharaoh Unearthed In Egypt<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 12:13 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Courtesy of National Public Radio at:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124169407" target=_blank>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124169407</A><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Massive Head Of Pharaoh Unearthed In Egypt<BR><BR>Archaeologists have unearthed a massive red granite head of one Egypt's<BR>most famous pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian<BR>Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Sunday.<BR><BR>The head of Amenhotep III, which alone is about the height of a person,<BR>was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the southern<BR>city of <SPAN>Luxor</SPAN>.<BR><BR>The leader of the expedition that discovered the head described it as the<BR>best preserved sculpture of Amenhotep III's face found to date.<BR><BR>"Other statues have always had something broken: the tip of the nose, the<BR>face is eroded," said
Dr. Hourig Sourouzian, who has led the led the<BR>Egyptian-European expedition at the site since 1999. "But here, from the<BR>tip of the crown to the chin, it is so beautifully carved and polished,<BR>nothing is broken."<BR><BR>The head is part of a larger statue found several years ago, along with<BR>the parts of the body, the back slab, and the ceremonial beard which<BR>Souruzian says will soon be connected with the head.<BR><BR>Amenhotep III, who was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaoh<BR>Tutankhamun, ruled from 1387-1348 B.C. at the height of Egypt's New<BR>Kingdom and presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south<BR>to Syria in the north.<BR><BR>Sourouzian said the pharaoh was famous for leading Egypt at the peak of<BR>its ancient civilization, when peace and luxury were prevalent throughout<BR>the kingdom. Craftsmen were also honing their artistic techniques during<BR>the period, which may explain the symmetrical features of
the unearthed<BR>head.<BR><BR>"But he may have looked exactly as this statue and he may have been a very<BR>beautiful, very handsome man," Sourouzian told the Associated Press.<BR><BR>Amenhotep III's massive mortuary temple was largely destroyed, possibly by<BR>floods, and little remains of its walls.<BR><BR>The expedition, however, has unearthed a wealth of artifacts and statuary<BR>in the buried ruins, including two statues of Amenhotep made of black<BR>granite found in March.<BR><BR>-------------------<BR><BR>Speaking of King Tut . . .<BR><BR><A href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/King_Tut.mp3" target=_blank>http://www.tomandrodna.com/King_Tut.mp3</A><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR><BR>-
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