article-date-extractor 0.1.1

A library for extracting the publication date from an article or a blog post.
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        </figure><p class="story-body__introduction">An ancient statue which was pulled from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II, but could be another king, Egypt's antiquities minister has said.</p><p>Khaled el-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.</p><p>Experts had thought the statue was Ramses, who ruled 600 years earlier, because it was close to a temple dedicated to the ruler.</p><p>But one of Psamtek's five names was found engraved on the huge statue.</p><p>Even so, the find is still significant, Mr Anani said.</p><div id="bbccom_mpu_1_2_3" class="bbccom_slot mpu-ad" aria-hidden="true" ata9c1m="" hidden="">
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</div><p>"If it belongs to this king, then it is the largest statue of the Late Period that was ever discovered in Egypt," <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/261102/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Newly-discovered-Matariya-colossus-is-probably-of-.aspx" class="story-body__link-external">Ahram Online reported</a> him as saying.</p><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width">
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