The 4,300-year-old head statue was smashed by Egyptian pharaohs

The broken head sculpture of an Egyptian pharaoh is found in an ancient city in Israel.

Archaeologists discovered the head of an Egyptian pharaoh in the ancient city of Hazor in Israel in 1995. It dates to an estimated 4,300 years, at a time when Egyptians were building pyramids. , according to Live Science. This sculpture was smashed 3,300 years ago, when Joshua led an Israeli army to destroy Hazor city.

The first part of the pharaoh statue dates 4,300 years found in Israel.(Photo: Gaby Laron).

The results of this study and discussion of the head statue are mentioned in the book "Hazor VII: Excavations from 1990 - 2012, Bronze Age" published in 2017 by the Israeli Adventurers Association.

"The statue depicts a man wearing a short wig, with a tight curl of his head. There is also a symbol of uraeus, a cobra on the pharaoh's forehead. Therefore the statue is an Egyptian king. " Laboury, senior researcher at the Belgian National Scientific Research Organization, said.

The carvings on the statue of a human head are characterized by the 5th dynasty in ancient Egypt, which lasted from 2465 - 2323 BC. The head statue may be part of a larger statue, but the pharaoh's identity that it describes so far has not been accurately defined, Dimitri Laboury and Simon Connor, two Egyptologists, wrote in the book.

"Cracks show that the nose has broken. The head part is separated from the larger sculpture before it is smashed , " said Laboury and Connor.

Archaeologists also found many other broken Egyptian statues and sculptures at Hazor, including a statue of a sphinx's unearthed footer in 2013. All the statues seem to be intentionally beaten. broken into pieces.