The temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt by suresh_krishna
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Main picture: Carved out of the mountain between 1274 and 1244 BC, the temple is dedicated to various Gods, but is dominated by the massive statues of Ramses II overlooking the lake Nasser. When the Aswan dam was built, the temple was moved to the present location. Over a period of three years UNESCO and the egyptian government assisted in dismantling the temple stone by stone and reassembling it to prevent it from being submerged. Each statue is 20m high.
Left: Ramses II hunting and Rameses II conquering his enemies with a mace.
Right: The smaller temple is dedicated to goddess Hathor and Ramses' favourite wife Nefratari.
Comments (19)
sadlers5
beautiful just beautiful, what scupture they did here! take care, ann :)
rufous
How awe inspiring...nice composition using the tourists for perspective
aaus10
fantastic image. i've been fascinated with these images for most of my life. When the aswan dam was built,they had to move some statues. the american engineer corp had to cut them in 3 piecs to move them. the neares rock formations where many miles away.
ambra2000
Ciao my dear friend!Also today A spectacular and marvellous collage of excelling shots! really I am charmed from these amazing images with subjects of high artistic value and of high photographic quality! Suresh you are the best photograph and artist!Thanks for the splendid and very interesting virtual trip between the precious and sole monuments of the ancient one Egypt!Great job!Really well done!V!ciao my dear friend!I wish you a happy day!Friendly greetings and abig hug!:-))
soulofharmony
brillaint historical shot excellent :)
pimbotin
one of the most famous places in the world. Congratulations for the shots and the history.
marybelgium
Wonderful...brought back a lot of fine memories of one of the famous places in the world such as pimbotin said ! Thanks for sharing !
kansas
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing these photos of your extensive travels.
cynlee
i'm still shivering with awe & amazement!! :]
Sylvaine
He finished the work of his predecessor and one Pharon woman...In enlarging more the Egytian Empire after the conquest of Nubia...and Anatolia (Hittites country) ...this is a place too- and not purposly to die-...Swiss tourist have been killed years ago...HAVE REALLY A FASCINATION FOR EGYPT STORY AND ARCHEOLOGY BCE...Thanks
sossy
awesome historical impressions! perfect light and so majestic artwork! excellent captures!! ;o)
Cosme..D..Churruca
Fantastic collage ! Very well done...
tony_br22
great stuff you made the light is perfect
chantal-france
Beautiful shots of this wonderful temple, Suresh! And thanks too for having well documented these shots : I appreciate a lot well documented/commented shots :) I hope you will post other shot in this series : they are beautiful :)
Beemer
Great Pictures! Thank you for the story too!
logiloglu
wonderful and very impressive shots. wish i had seen this culture wonder too. excellent presentation. !!!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!!
jcv2
Incredible to see the size of this art-in-stone, dwarfing the people in front of it! Excellent collage!
Michelle A.
So impressive, the history, the moving of it, and your shots!
Akinom
Seems you have done about the same tour we did so many years ago :o)... we came to Abu Simbel by a small plane from Assuan. Gorgeous presentation of this impressive place!