JONES: To Egypt now where archaeologists have made a major discovery of an enormous statue of a pharaoh being dead for thousands of years. Our Jonathan Mann has the details.</s>MANN (voice-over): A discovery of colossal proportions. Archaeologists have uncovered a colossus, a massive eight-meter statue of what they believe to be Ramses II, one of Egypt's most powerful and celebrated pharaohs. Ramses the Great ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. But the quartzite statue was unearthed from this mighty hole in a Cairo slum just days ago. A crowd looked on as experts used an earth mover to pull the statue's huge head out of the muck. Egypt's Antiquities Ministry calls the found pharaoh one of its most important discoveries ever.</s>KHALED AL-ANANI, EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES MINISTER: We found the bust or the statue. And the lower part of the head and now we remove the head, we found the crown and the right ear and a fragment of the right eye.</s>MANN: The joint Egyptian-German expedition also found part of a life- sized limestone statue of Ramses' grandson. The discoveries were made in Matariya, a working class part of eastern Cairo with unfinished buildings and mud roads. And experts say this area was once home to an ancient city of the Sun God.</s>DIETRICH RAUE, HEAD OF THE GERMAN EXPEDITION: According to the pharaonic belief, the world was created in Matariya. And that means that every king had to build here, make statues, temples, obelisks, everything.</s>MANN: Archaeologists are now working to recover and restore the remaining pieces of the Ramses colossus, hopefully in time for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum next year. Jonathan Mann, CNN.</s>JONES: Fantastic find there. Now one homeowner in China's
Pharaoh's Statue Dug Up in Cairo Slum