Sands of time run out for lost city of Rameses

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 30, 2000| Author: Caroline Hawley in Cairo | Copyright information

DEEP IN the Nile delta, on the outskirts of the village of Qantir, 60 miles north-east of Cairo, a pair of giant stone feet stand in a field of lush green wheat. They belong to a broken statue of the Pharaoh Rameses II. And the field belongs to a farmer, Muhammad Said Awad. "Whenever you put the plough in the earth," he says, "it just keeps hitting old stones."

A few metres from the feet lies an arm and, beyond that, an inscribed column base. Archaeologists believe these remains were ...

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