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The Angus Briefing · October 16 · 5 min

Reflection: a king returned to view - October 16 | Ep 105

Ramses II had his names carved into a statue built to tower over people, yet it lay buried until Khaled el-Shahat Khalil noticed an inscribed stone and reported it. Being seen depends on someone else's attention: a stone ignored or kept would not have brought archaeologists to that field.

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Ramses II had his names carved into a statue built to tower over people, yet it lay buried until Khaled el-Shahat Khalil noticed an inscribed stone and reported it. Being seen depends on someone else's attention: a stone ignored or kept would not have brought archaeologists to that field.

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