Image Abu Simbel Hathor Temple EG051443JHP 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 Hathor Temple EG051443JHP Abu Simbel Hathor Ancient Egyptian Small Temple Queen Nefertari tree framed near the Great Temple with its huge rock carved statues of Ramses 11 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, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, wife, Queen, Nefertari, Hathor, temple, small, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff, trees
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel Hathor Temple EG051443JHP
Upload Date: 2002-10-25 08:42:52
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Abu Simbel Hathor Ancient Egyptian Small Temple Queen Nefertari tree

framed near the Great Temple with its huge rock carved statues of Ramses 11 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, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, wife, Queen, Nefertari, Hathor, temple, small, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff, trees