Google Earth Fly-Over Imagery Available for Historic Move of Pharoah Ramses II Statue from Cairo to Pyramids; Fly-Over Footage Available as Broadcast-Quality Video and as KML File Overlay.

Google:

WHO:
    Google

WHAT:

    Google Earth fly-over imagery available for historic relocation of
    Ramses II

WHERE:

    Footage available at: http://thenewsmarket.com/Google. KML imagery
    overlay for Google Earth or Google Maps available on the Google
    Blog at:
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-move-ramses-ii.html.

WHEN:

    Wednesday, August 23, 2006

WHY:

    This Friday, August 25th at 6am local time, when Cairo traffic is
    at its calmest, the colossal statue of 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramses
    II will begin its journey from outside Bab Al-Hadid train station
    in Cairo to its new home at the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum
    (GEM) overlooking the Giza Plateau. For over 50 years, exhaust
    fumes from trains, cars and buses, as well as subway vibrations,
    have been damaging the 3,200+ year old granite statue at Ramses
    Square, its home since the early 1950s, when it was taken from a
    temple at the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

    Archaeology enthusiasts, Egyptian history buffs, or simply anyone
    interested in great feats of engineering can witness Ramses'
    24-hour journey from Cairo in Google Earth with the click of a
    mouse. This historic 16-mile relocation has been documented as a
    KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file which will overlay this route
    in Google Earth or Google Maps on the Google Blog at:
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-move-ramses-ii.html.
    In addition, broadcast-quality video footage is available from
    theNewsMarket at: http://thenewsmarket.com/Google.