called one of the most important discoveries ever. >> we found the bust of the statue and the lower part of the head and now we moved the head and found the crown and the right ear and a fragment of the right eye. >> reporter: the joint egyptian/german expedition found part of a life sized limestone statue of ramses grandson, made in a working class part of eastern cairo with unfinished buildings and mud roads. this area was once home to an ancient city of the sun god. >> according to the belief, the world was created there in materia. that means everything had to build here, make statues, temples, everything. >> reporter: archaeologists are working to recover and restore