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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 Nine Bows EG051385JHP Abu Simbel Great Temple carvings Nine Bows enemies Egypt bound Asiatics Nubians at the base of one of the huge rock carved seated 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, huge, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, pharaoh, NIne, Bows, prisoners, enemies, bound, Asiatics, Nubians, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel Nine Bows EG051385JHP
Upload Date: 2002-10-25 08:42:52
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Abu Simbel Great Temple carvings Nine Bows enemies Egypt bound

Asiatics Nubians at the base of one of the huge rock carved seated 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, huge, Great Temple, landscape, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, pharaoh, NIne, Bows, prisoners, enemies, bound, Asiatics, Nubians, seated, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff