Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered a massive statue believed to depict King Ramses II, the pharoah believed to be a major character in the Old Testament.

The statue was found at the Tel Pharaoh site in Husseiniya Center, Sharqia Governorate, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on April 22. The site is in Egypt’s Nile Delta, northeast of Cairo.

Officials also described the statue as “remarkable” in size, weighing between 5 and 6 tons and measuring over 7 feet long.

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In a translated statement, the ministry described the statue as being in a “relatively poor condition of preservation,” with its legs and base missing.

Still, officials described the statue as “likely represent[ing] King Ramses II.”

Ramesses II, born in 1303 B.C., is considered one of the most influential and powerful Egyptian rulers of the New Kingdom era.

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The pharaoh is often cited by scholars as a possible ruler referenced in the biblical Book of Exodus, though no name is given in the Old Testament.

Ramesses II is said to have retaliated against Moses and refused his requests, which resulted in a series of plagues. He died in 1213 B.C.

Egyptian antiquities official Mohamed Abdel Badie said the statue was likely moved in ancient times and reused at the site.

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“[P]reliminary studies indicate the statue was transported in ancient times from the city of Pi-Ramesses to the Tel Pharaoh site, known in ancient times as ‘Imet,’ to be reused within one of the religious complexes, reflecting the religious and historical importance of the site across different periods,” said Badie.

The statement also described the statue as “one of the important archaeological pieces of evidence that shed light on aspects of religious and royal activity in the eastern Delta region.”

“As part of efforts to preserve this discovery, the statue was immediately transferred upon its discovery from within the temple complex at the site to the museum storage facility in the San El-Hagar area,” the statement noted.

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The move was “in preparation for the start of precise and urgent restoration work, in accordance with the highest scientific standards followed in the conservation and preservation of antiquities.”

The find adds to a growing list of archaeological discoveries recently announced across Egypt.

In late March, officials revealed eight rare papyrus scrolls dating back nearly 3,000 years, with their contents still unknown.

Officials also recently unveiled the remains of an ancient religious complex in North Sinai, a site often identified with a biblical city mentioned in the Old Testament.

Tropicana Field struck again on Saturday night, leading to a heated moment among San Francisco Giants players and personnel during the team’s 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Rays may be the team who needs a new stadium in the most. The catwalk has proved to be a thorn in the sides of players since the team entered MLB in 1998. The Giants may agree with that notion after what happened in the second inning.

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Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos hit a fly ball that careened off the catwalk. Rays center fielder Cedric Mullins tracked the ball to the warning track, but he noticed the ball was going to drop in front of him. He adjusted and made the play for the out. Ramos was stunned and the Giants challenged the play, arguing that the play should have been ruled a home run.

The umpires upheld the out, causing an issue for Giants pitcher Adrian Houser and director of pitching Frank Anderson. The crew ejected both Houser and Anderson from the game as they argued the call from the dugout.

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“I was just kinda caught up in the fact that the center fielder kept going back and he came in and after that, obviously, I was trying to just get it all sorted,” Giants manager Tony Vitello said after the game. “It all kinda got pretty hot pretty quick. I was just trying to figure out, ‘Can we take a look at it?’ And what can be done from there.

“And then, I kinda blacked out to be honest with you, amongst all the riff raff after something about ra-ra and pom-poms which had something to do with college or my behavior in the dugout but I’ve been on the field a lot of days in my life and any time I actually get to participate in the game, I get a little excited in the dugout so maybe that was part of it. I didn’t have anything contextual, I just wanted to know what happened.”

San Francisco’s lone run in the game ended the team’s 16-inning scoreless stretch.

The Giants fell to 13-20 on the season. The Rays improved to 20-12.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The battle over reparations for racial minorities in the United States has grown somewhat quiet in recent years, but it’s not because proponents of it have surrendered. It’s because they have already won.

The list of ways in which our government redistributes wealth to minorities is long, as you’ll see below, but first, it’s worth paying attention to something that Democratic strategist James Carville said recently.

Referring to packing the Supreme Court and making Washington DC and Puerto Rico states, should Democrats retake power, the cagey old Cajun said, “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

I posit that this is precisely what Democrats have done in regard to reparations.

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Take for example, marijuana legalization laws in states such as New York and Minnesota that offer loans, often forgivable, and training only to black and brown people, or other “special equity” groups, 

This is millions of tax dollars being given to people solely on the basis of their race.

The excuse Democrats use is that black and brown people were disproportionately harmed by harsh drug laws, but obviously the vast majority have never been arrested for drug crimes.

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And it’s not just the weed business. In Democrat enclave after Democrat enclave, these set-aside programs exist to help these “special equity” groups get a leg up in businesses like, oh, I don’t know, day care centers and hospices. In states like Minnesota and California, we have seen how this form of reparations easily falls prey to fraud.

Another form of reparations that has saturated our society over the past two decades is mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training both in the public and the private sector.

When a state or locality mandates, as almost every blue one does, that every government employee has to watch an hour-long video about how not to be a racist, with a quiz at the end, that costs millions, almost exclusively paid to black- and brown-owned providers.

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Even reparations studies themselves, of which there has been an endless supply and which all seem to land on needing more money for more studies is a form of reparations.

Democrats aren’t even particularly shy about their use of reparations anymore. New York Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, as a candidate, defended his plan to heavily tax “wealthier and whiter,” neighborhoods, by saying, “That is just a description of what we see right now. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed.”

For some reason, Madman Mamdani thinks that if he phrases it this way he isn’t saying, “White people have too much money so the government will give some of it to non-White people,” but that is exactly and literally what he is saying.

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This is how normalized and regular the use of reparations has already become in our society.

Democrats are not trying to bring about reparations, they already have. What they are doing now is protecting the multi-billion-dollar industries that their backdoor reparations have already created.

Sadly, most of the people who benefit from this de facto form of reparations are a handful of activists, who like those who ran Black Lives Matters, often enrich themselves in the guise of fighting systemic racism.

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The vast majority of black and brown people do not benefit from a small number getting cheap forgivable loans to sling weed, only the people who take that money do.

Nobody has ever been brought out of poverty as a result of a DEI workplace training requirement, but those providing the services live high on the hog.

And all of these beneficiaries, though a small slice of the black and brown population, are generous donors and organizers for the Democratic Party.

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Nice work if you can get it.

Although most of this form of reparations is occurring on the state and local level, that doesn’t mean there is no role for the federal government to play. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon has shown a willingness to go after these programs.

More needs to be done. This normalization that Democrats have pushed, of the government treating people differently based on the color of their skin, must be pulled out by the roots.

And as Carville pointed out, let this serve as a warning: The Democrats don’t have to tell you how they will fundamentally harm our country before they actually do it.

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