Villager finds two giant Ramesses II statues in Egypt

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six, Live Science reported that a villager in Egypt found the remains of two statues of Ramesses the Second.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo statues. Just lying about, and nobody noticed for thousands of years.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne of them would originally have stood around twenty-eight feet tall, and one of them wore a double crown.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-eight feet.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's the size of a small house, and it was found by a man out for what I assume was an ordinary day.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHank, if a house-sized pharaoh can hide under our feet, what else is down there? I've been saying this since two thousand nine.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy theory is that it was embarrassed, lay down, and covered itself in sand until the fuss died down.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMine is that it waited. It picked its moment, and the moment is a warning, and we're all in it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThousands of years of waiting, a double crown, and the only person who got any credit was a villager with good timing.

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