Image Abu Simbel Graffiti EG051426JHP by Jim Henderson

 
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Photographs of the Great Temple of Ramses 11 at Abu Simbel and those of his wife's temple of Nefertari with some interior images as well.
Abu Simbel Graffiti EG051426JHP Abu Simbel Great Temple graffiti torso carved stone Ramses Carved onto the huge rock seated statues of Ramses 11 with his graffiti covered torso at what was once a River Nile site but now reconstructed in a mammoth UNESCO rescue project in the 1960’s and housed in an artificial hill high enough to save it from the total flooding with the creation of Lake Nasser. Keywords: Egypt, ancient, Egyptian, Lake Nasser, River Nile, Nubia, Abu Simbel, rock, carved, huge, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, torso, graffiti, names, dates, carvings, pharaoh, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel Graffiti EG051426JHP
Upload Date: 2002-10-25 08:42:52
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Abu Simbel Great Temple graffiti torso carved stone Ramses Carved

onto the huge rock seated statues of Ramses 11 with his graffiti covered torso at what was once a River Nile site but now reconstructed in a mammoth UNESCO rescue project in the 1960’s and housed in an artificial hill high enough to save it from the total flooding with the creation of Lake Nasser.
Keywords: Egypt, ancient, Egyptian, Lake Nasser, River Nile, Nubia, Abu Simbel, rock, carved, huge, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, torso, graffiti, names, dates, carvings, pharaoh, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff