Statue of Ramses II found under Cairo

[Jon101]

It seems that, according to this article:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-ozymandias-statue-found-in-mud, a large and well preserved statue, possibly of Ramses II, has been discovered in Cairo.

The excavation and treatment of the site looks shoddy, surely they could drain it and section the ground, who knows what else is lurking in the mud?.

Edited March 10, 2017 by Jon101

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

I met a traveller from an antique land, 

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, 

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, 

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read 

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, 

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; 

And on the pedestal, these words appear: 

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; 

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! 

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay 

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare 

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Still Waters]

This has been posted already, sorry.