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The sarcophagus of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs has finally been found, three millennia after his death. Egyptologists were left baffled by the mystery of the whereabouts of the sarcophagus of Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great. A mysterious granite burial found in 2009 under the floor of a religious centre in east-central Egypt had baffled archaeologists. However, new analysis has shown that the fragment belonged to Ramesses II. Teacher and researcher at Sorbonne University Frédéric Payraudeau made the discovery this month after taking another look at a fragment of granite dis…

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