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Abu Simbel - Ramses II Temple  
   

Abu Simbel - Ramses II Temple

Each of the statues for Ramses' temple is 20 m high and each one depicts Ramses II through life. How can you tell? Well apparently the fact that his smile grows smaller in each consecutive statue shows that he's no longer filled with the joy and naive happiness of youth.
Egypt, land of the Pharoahs

December 30th 2007
This blog should more accurately be called ‘a trial in sleep deprivation’ More on that soon… Well you may or may not know that Egypt was kind of thrust upon us - or at least chosen without our usual thorough planning. At about the same time as we reached the conclusion that we wanted to go somewhere hot for Christmas - the Arctic Circle in Norway and the freezing wet & windy Edinburgh for H ... read more
Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

Egyptian Flag The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more
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