Rebuilding an Ancient Egyptian Statue is a Huge Challenge

The colossal statue of the ancient Egyptian King, Psamtik I was discovered in pieces - over 1,900 of them. Rebuilding it, at least partially, can help archaeologists identify his pose and the size of the statue.

[GamerKent]

History of ancient Egypt is so mysterious, beautiful, and absolutely fascinating!!!

[mohamedhommos]

Impressive im so impressed 💯 percent amazing statue huge and huge ancient Egyptian gods country in North Africa 🇪🇬❤️🌍

[legendaryexplorer]

Nice! Man I just love learning about and studying ancient Egyptian history!

[chareannacook]

I support this with every molecule of myself.

[Nomatternow]

One of the great pyramids should be fully restored. Humans have destroyed so much.

[phillynise]

Kemet was so amazing in Africa, what was Europe doing at this

[denese]

The step forward gives the statue more stability too, yes? If the feet were together, the statue could tip over.

[kevinm]

Now how about someone explain how they achieves such levels of perfection and how elements like the face are so dead on accurate from left to right side of the face? So accurate that not even a computer can see a difference!

[rassaneybattiese]

Amazing how such hard rock was cut to detail.

[seriousgoat]

I bet the people who built these statues were not thinking thousands of years later we would be rebuilding them.

[mahfah]

Why Smithsonian isn’t offer on slingtv???! Its very expensive

[goosetaylor]

I thought he was going to Chisel it Himself so I feel baited

[Stuffrutf]

dislike for not using the metric system.

[ziaurrehmankhan]

I think this is something like ferghaon

[mz]

so 10m quartzite statue perfectly cut and crafted and transported where it was first eradicated, man what forces would be needed to destroyed this? and when? and honestly how did they make this seriously, chisels? mmm i doubt we could make it today out of quartzite, well im sure we could (maybe with AI and lasers) but why go to such an extend with such a hard rock and alot alot alot of time/money and they always get their anatomy beyond masterful level, hyper realistic statues all over Egypt made out of the hardest possible stone, the artist style is almost perfect barely anyone in history has achieve such levels of artist symmetry, only more common now with computers but somehow they did it, really make you wonder, so amazing and mysterious

[animalworld]

Which race of people actually destroyed

[allanhope]

How did they carve these statues thousands of years ago?