Image Abu Simbel Temple Entrance EG02074JHP 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 Temple Entrance EG02074JHP Abu Simbel Great Temple Re-Harakhte statue above door lintel Egypt with huge rock carved statue of Ramses 11 and his wife looking up above the main doort to the statue of Re-Harakhte 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, upright, entrance, door, niche, Re-Harakhte, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, pharaoh, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel Temple Entrance EG02074JHP
Upload Date: 2002-10-25 08:42:52
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Abu Simbel Great Temple Re-Harakhte statue above door lintel Egypt

with huge rock carved statue of Ramses 11 and his wife looking up above the main doort to the statue of Re-Harakhte 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, upright, entrance, door, niche, Re-Harakhte, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, pharaoh, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff