Ancient Sun Temple was found in Cairo

October 19, 2009

The ancient sun temple is believed to be the greatest. when they found it, they found large statues that are believe to be Ramses II. Archaeologists found the temple under an outdoor marketplace called Souq al-Khamis.  The statues that were found in the sun temple were so unique that one statue that was made out of pink granite, weighing 4 to 5 tons!!! the temple also had green floors but the archaeologists don’t know if  it is green pavement or if it is just very, very dirty! i found all of this information on….

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11588559/

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4 Responses to “Ancient Sun Temple was found in Cairo”

  1. danielr13 said

    wow this is very interesting i wonder how pold the artifact is?

  2. angelpa1 said

    That is pretty cool how the sun temple had extremely rare statues made of pink granite. But that place sounds like it needs a good cleaning! Great Job Danny!

  3. tylerm27 said

    I like how you use exclamation marks to show expression.

    It is also cool that it has statues made of rare pink granite.

  4. josephba1 said

    i think being underground, someone would have found it making a foundation and i wonder why they decided or how they found it.

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