Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Amazing

These are 4 huge statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel--one fell in ancient times. They are standing at the entrance to a temple in his honor. He had a little bit of an ego problem I think.
In the 60's they were building the Aswan high dam and they would have been underwater so there was a scramble to save them. It was quite the process and the mountain the temple is now in is man made. Worth the effort to see.

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