#Abu-Simbel

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Nefertari Temple, Egypt, 1928. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Heads of Ramesses II taken from the facade of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel during its relocation, 1966

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Abu Simbel

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Inside Abu Simbel Temple

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Ramsés II

Abu Simbel

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A man stands on a colossal figure of Ramesses II at the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt, 1865. (Colorized)

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ABU Simbel is an ancient temple complex, originally cut into a solid rock cliff, in southern Egypt and located at the second cataract of the Nile River. The two temples which comprise the site were created during the reign of Ramesses II (c. 1279 - c. 1213 BCE) either between 1264 - 1244 BCE or 1244-1224 BCE. The discrepancy in the dates is due to differing interpretations of the life of Ramesses II by modern-day scholars.

It is certain, based upon the extensive artwork throughout the interior of the Great Temple, that the structures were created, at least in part, to celebrate Ramesses' victory over the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BCE. To some scholars, this indicates a probable date of 1264 BCE for the initial construction as the victory would have been fresh in the memory of the people. However, the decision to build the grand monument at that precise location, on the border with the conquered lands of Nubia, suggests to other scholars the later date of 1244 BCE in that it would have had to have been begun after the Nubian Campaigns Ramesses II undertook with his sons and was built as a symbol of Egypt's power.

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ABU SIMBEL TEMPLE - EGYPT

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Imhotep haunting the grounds of Abu Simbel.

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Three years have passed, but the memories of the great journey through Egypt, from south to north - from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and then back from Aswan to Giza and Cairo, remain very vivid. Many thanks to the people from the research center "Laboratory of Alternative History", who are passionate about Egypt, who showed it to us in such a deep and diverse way.

I saw a good photo series with Abu Simbel. The author is a good travel photographer from Cairo Hassan Mohamed. True, we arrived in Abu Simbel in the morning and left in the late afternoon, but we walked around the Luxor temple in the dark in the evening, there is also a magnificent backlight, so I can imagine. In general, both Abu Simbel and Luxor are very photogenic.

P.S. It's a pity that the figures of people are not visible in the photo, then all the grandiosity would be clearer.

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Chain of Nubian captives, Great Temple of Ramesses II, Abu Simbel.

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Abu Simbel, Egipto

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This place surely looks a lot like the temple of Hathor and Nefertari at the Abu Simbel site!

Fun fact: the temples of Abu Simbel today are not in the same place they were originally built. Since the construction of the Aswan High Dam would've raised the water level enough for them to be completely submerged, between 1964 and 1968 the entire site was carefully dismantled into blocks and moved in a new location higher and farther from the Nile.

This is also the second time in ancient Egyptian history that a temple is dedicated to a queen, the first being Akhenaten's temple dedicated to Nefertiti. It's also one of the few instances in ancient Egyptian art in which statues of the king and the queen are of the same size (usually the queen is smaller). Ramses really loved his wife huh

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Abu Simbel

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