Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a large statue believed to depict King Ramses II at the Tel Pharaoh site in the Nile Delta, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on April 22.

Ramses II is thought to be the pharaoh described in the biblical account of Moses and the enslavement of the Children of Israel in Egypt.

The discovery was made at Tell Faraoun, known in ancient times as Imet, in the Al-Husseiniya district of Sharqia Governorate, northeast of Cairo, and was part of an archaeological mission led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt’s eastern Delta.