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0:03NARRATOR: The largest pieces
of the colossal statue
0:05of forgotten pharaoh
Psamtik I are today
0:09on display at the Cairo Museum.
0:16But 1,900 other fragments
recovered from the site are
0:20being pieced together
at the state-of-the-art
0:23Grand Egyptian Museum.
0:27 This is the next step
in Egyptian archeology.
0:30It's where all the priceless
artifacts from the tomb
0:31of Tutankhamun
are being analyzed
0:33before they go on display in
the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
0:36And it's where
thousands and thousands
0:38of Egypt's most
valuable treasures
0:40are being investigated.
0:43NARRATOR: From the 1,900
recovered fragments,
0:46little remained of
Psamtik's shattered legs.
0:50The challenge for
the experts was
0:51to work out if the Pharaoh was
depicted sitting or standing.
0:56The pose would help determine
the true scale of the colossus.
1:01And their answer came from an
unexpected piece of the puzzle.
1:06 These lines can
really only be the folds
1:10from a kilt, a short kilt
that Pharaoh was wearing.
1:14So this is a part of
the middle of his body.
1:17And in fact, these curves
represent the top of
1:23his left leg and his rear end.
1:25So it's this kind of part here.
1:28And this is really, really
interesting because the curves
1:32are moving down the kilt,
moving down the Pharaoh's leg,
1:35and they are angled
forwards from his body.
1:40NARRATOR: Detailed
analysis of the folds
1:41reveal they could
only form like this
1:44if Psamtik was standing up.
1:48Incredibly, the intricate
detailing allows experts
1:52to now recreate his exact pose.
1:56 So his left leg wouldn't have
been entirely upright in line
2:01with the upper part of his
body, it would, in fact, have
2:04been standing sort of forward.
2:06So he would have been more
in a kind of a striding pose,
2:12Would have conveyed a sense
of sort of strength and power.
2:15It's a very imposing sort of
shape he casts in this pose.
2:19And this is absolutely classic
of Egyptian royal sculpture.
2:24NARRATOR: The fragments
reveal the complete statue
2:27would have been 36 feet tall, an
all-powerful striding colossus.
2:35It's a striking
power pose, and it's
2:37uncannily similar to a statue
on display at the Cairo Museum.
2:44 This is a statue of Pharaoh
Senusret III, and look,
2:48it's got the same well-defined
torso, the same clear pectoral
2:52muscles, muscular shoulders.
2:54It's got the same divine beard.
2:55It's got the same
white crown, and also,
2:58crucially, if you look here, his
left leg is extended forward,
3:03giving him this
striding pose, exactly
3:06as we see in the other statue.
3:08And so in all the
crucial details,
3:10this statue is exactly the
same as that of Psamtik.
3:15NARRATOR: But despite its
near-identical appearance,
3:17there's one crucial difference.
3:21This statue was created at a
time when the Egyptian empire
3:24was in its ascendancy
not in decline, 1,200
3:30years before Psamtik was born.
3:36 So it appears that
Psamtik was following
3:39in the tradition which
was well over 1,000 years
3:42And in fact, the tradition of
having statues carved like this
3:46goes back even further, to
the time of the pyramids,
3:49well over 2,000 years
before Psamtik's time.
