EGYPT: November-December 2013.
Memphis. The Temple of Hathor.
There is a small Temple, located to the east from the settlement of Kom Rabia. It is called the Temple of Hathor. According to the inscriptions, found on the fragments of its walls, the Temple was built during the reign of Ramses II, the Pharaoh of XIX Dynasty. For the first time the Temple ruins were discovered in 1971 by the Egyptian archaeologist Abdulla el-Sayed Mahmoud.
EGYPT: November-December 2013.
Memphis. Museum of Ramsess-II.
During the excavation of Memphis, conducted by the Italian archaeologist Caviglia and English archaeologist Sloan in 1820 - a ten-meter (without feet) statue of Ramses II was discovered. It is made of a single piece of limestone. The legs and the pedestal of the statue was not found. The total height of the statue (with legs), probably, reached 13 meters.