Farmer's cucumber greenhouse leads to giant Ramses II statues

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAn Egyptian farmer digging in front of his home found an inscribed granite block, and archaeologists have now unearthed two colossal statues believed to show Ramses the Second, Fox News reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA farmer was digging up his land and ended up with a pharaoh. I'd call that a very successful harvest.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe told CBS News he came across an unusual stone on Friday. Eight and a half metres of pharaoh, and he said unusual.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorUnderstated. I respect a man who doesn't oversell a pharaoh.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe head of the first statue is about five and a quarter feet tall, and the whole thing once stood roughly eight and a half metres, base included.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorUnder a cucumber greenhouse?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe village is Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile Delta. How a statue that size stayed hidden, I can't tell you.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy theory is nobody looked under the cucumbers.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy theory is Ramses wanted representation in agriculture.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe minister of tourism and antiquities even visited the farmer to honor him, so the statement practically writes itself: a heritage partnership.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA minister honored the man. The cucumbers received nothing, and the pharaoh is still missing his legs.