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- 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...
- Light On Ramesses At Abu Simbel
Egypt State Information Service It's that time of year again: Some 7,000 tourists and Egyptians witnessed Friday 22/2/2008 the phenomenon of the sun falling perpendicular on the face of Ramses II statue in Abu Simbel temple, south Egypt. Happening...
- Daily Photo - Temple Of Ramesses At Abu Simbel
Over the next couple of days, the "daily photo" will be featuring Abu Simbel in Nubia. The temple complex at Abu Simbel was one of the many monuments built under the reign of Ramesses II. Both of the tombs at Abu Simbel were rock-cut into a sandstone...
- 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
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 the Great Temple of Abu Simbel and illuminate the statues of the pharaoh Ramses II and the gods Horus and Amun-Ra; even then, the face of Ptah, "The Lord of Darkness", is left in shadow.
Dug into the rock in honour of Ramses II and his favourite wife, Nefertari, the temples of Abu Simbel, in the Nubian desert, are the high point of any tour in the land of the pharaohs.
But this amazing treasure was nearly lost due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the Sixties, a civil engineering project undertaken to tame the Nile and control its regular flooding. The dam created the vast artificial Lake Nasser and without the actions of UNESCO, working in conjunction with the Egyptian government, a huge quantity of pharaonic heritage would have disappeared under the waters of the reservoir.
- 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...
- Light On Ramesses At Abu Simbel
Egypt State Information Service It's that time of year again: Some 7,000 tourists and Egyptians witnessed Friday 22/2/2008 the phenomenon of the sun falling perpendicular on the face of Ramses II statue in Abu Simbel temple, south Egypt. Happening...
- Daily Photo - Temple Of Ramesses At Abu Simbel
Over the next couple of days, the "daily photo" will be featuring Abu Simbel in Nubia. The temple complex at Abu Simbel was one of the many monuments built under the reign of Ramesses II. Both of the tombs at Abu Simbel were rock-cut into a sandstone...
- 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...