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What's it like to discover 'a colossus'?

"It got bigger and bigger and then we realised we were standing on its chest." Dr Dietrich Raue shares the extraordinary story of a joint German-Egyptian archaeological expedition responsible for finding one of the largest statues of the late period ever discovered.

Psamtek I, ruled between 664 and 610BC.

(Image: Egyptian worker prepares the ground, credit: Reuters).

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