Egypt
- Spotlight On Abu Simbel
Hello Magazine I never thought that I'd be blogging about an article on Hello magazine, or at least not on this particular blog! Just twice a year, on February 22nd and October 22nd, the first rays of the morning sun pierce through the darkness of...
- Sun Reaches The Gods At Abu Simbel On 22/02
Egypt Today Twice a year, on February 22 and October 22, the sun illuminates the statues of Ramses II, Ra and Amun in the sanctuary of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel. People flock to see the statues’ normally shadowed faces light up with the rays of...
- Sun Shines On Ramses Ii At Abu Simbel
About Egypt The first rays of the morning sun lit up the the statue of pharaoh Ramses II at his temple in Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, a phenomenon that occurs only twice a year. The sun began to enter the temple at 0555 local time (02.55 GMT) for 24...
- Sun To Fall On Ramses Ii At Abu Simbel
http://tinyurl.com/y66ecp (sis.gov.eg)"Egypt will witness the annual celebration of the perpendicular sun fall on the face of Pharaoh Ramses II statue in Abu Simbel Temple in Luxor on Sunday October 22. . . . Mohamed Hamid, director of the Abu Simbel...
- Lighting The Eternal King
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg6.htm "The usually sedate town of Abu Simbel was abuzz with Ramses fever as the sun's rays penetrated through the temple to illuminate the eternal king's face". A description of the festivities surrounding...
Egypt
Face of Ramses lights up tomorrow
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
"A prominent Egyptian archaeologist has refuted the widely held belief that the sun illuminates the inner sanctum of the main temple at Abu Simbel only on 22 February and 22 October, the birthday and the date of the coronation of Pharaoh Ramses II. On those two days every year the sun's rays shine on seated statues of the sun gods Re-Horakhty and Amun-Re, and a statue of Ramses II. The statues sit in the company of the Theban god of darkness, Ptah, which is shrouded in shadow all year round. 'The sun lights up the statues on the two days in the year that mark the beginning of 'summer' and 'winter' according to pharaonic agricultural calendar,' archaeologist Mohamed Hamid told the Middle East News Agency. Abu Simbel will witness a rare phenomenon when the rays of the sun penetrate the darkness for more than 60 metres inside the temple to illuminate the seated three statues except for that of Ptah that remains in the dark all year round, he added".
"A prominent Egyptian archaeologist has refuted the widely held belief that the sun illuminates the inner sanctum of the main temple at Abu Simbel only on 22 February and 22 October, the birthday and the date of the coronation of Pharaoh Ramses II. On those two days every year the sun's rays shine on seated statues of the sun gods Re-Horakhty and Amun-Re, and a statue of Ramses II. The statues sit in the company of the Theban god of darkness, Ptah, which is shrouded in shadow all year round. 'The sun lights up the statues on the two days in the year that mark the beginning of 'summer' and 'winter' according to pharaonic agricultural calendar,' archaeologist Mohamed Hamid told the Middle East News Agency. Abu Simbel will witness a rare phenomenon when the rays of the sun penetrate the darkness for more than 60 metres inside the temple to illuminate the seated three statues except for that of Ptah that remains in the dark all year round, he added".
This is the complete item from today's Egyptian Gazette.
- Spotlight On Abu Simbel
Hello Magazine I never thought that I'd be blogging about an article on Hello magazine, or at least not on this particular blog! Just twice a year, on February 22nd and October 22nd, the first rays of the morning sun pierce through the darkness of...
- Sun Reaches The Gods At Abu Simbel On 22/02
Egypt Today Twice a year, on February 22 and October 22, the sun illuminates the statues of Ramses II, Ra and Amun in the sanctuary of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel. People flock to see the statues’ normally shadowed faces light up with the rays of...
- Sun Shines On Ramses Ii At Abu Simbel
About Egypt The first rays of the morning sun lit up the the statue of pharaoh Ramses II at his temple in Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, a phenomenon that occurs only twice a year. The sun began to enter the temple at 0555 local time (02.55 GMT) for 24...
- Sun To Fall On Ramses Ii At Abu Simbel
http://tinyurl.com/y66ecp (sis.gov.eg)"Egypt will witness the annual celebration of the perpendicular sun fall on the face of Pharaoh Ramses II statue in Abu Simbel Temple in Luxor on Sunday October 22. . . . Mohamed Hamid, director of the Abu Simbel...
- Lighting The Eternal King
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/eg6.htm "The usually sedate town of Abu Simbel was abuzz with Ramses fever as the sun's rays penetrated through the temple to illuminate the eternal king's face". A description of the festivities surrounding...