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Photo for Today: Beit el-Wali

Over the next few days I'll be posting some more photographs from this lovely site. The colours are absolutely marvellous. I took these photographs when was there on a Lake Nasser cruise at the end of 2006. I had forgotten just how fresh the whole site felt, even on its artificial island accompanied by other rescued temples with which it had no direct relationship.

Khnum with Ramesses II
Beit el-Wali, New Kalabsha Island, Aswan

- Photo For Today - Beit El-wali
Ramesses II with the Elephantine deity Khnum and his consort Anukis Beit el-Wali, New Kalabsha island, near Aswan This is the last of the photos from Beit el-Wali. There will be more from New Kalabsha in the next couple of weeks. Egyptology News Blog,...

- Photo For Today - Back To New Kalabsha
Now that Lucia's excellent photographs of Amarna have all been posted I'm back in Nubia with my holiday snaps from a Lake Nasser cruise in 2007. I still have some more photographs from Beit el Wali, both the interior and exterior, so I'll...

- Photo For Today: Beit El-wali
Ra-Horakhty (Horus of the Two Horizons) Beit el-Wali, New Kalabsha island, Aswan Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...

- Daily Photo - The Temple Of Beit Al-wali, New Kalabsha
Still lurking on Lake Nasser (mainly because I was in the file to find the Qasr Ibrim photos), here are images of Beit al-Wali. New Kalabsha is just to the south of Aswan, which can be visited as a morning/day trip from Aswan. A number of monuments rescued...

- Reopening, Restoring Kalabsha Island Temples
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o150424z1.htmThe temples of Kalabsha Island in Aswan will be opened next month for visitors following a comprehensive restoration that covered the archaeological site. There are rock inscriptions of animals, boats...

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