The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel ... of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (Egypt), listed as World Heritage since 1979. The Great Temple, fronted by four colossal 21-metre ...

the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of the rock. For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nile, till the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists announced they may have unearthed a massive statue depicting Pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery is located near the Pharaoh's temple ruins in Cairo ...

Ramses II (the Great ... of Egypt bear his stamp: Abu Simbel, Karnak and Luxor Temples, the Ramesseum, and many others. He also commissioned the largest monolithic statue ever, a seated statue ...

But all across his kingdom he erected vast new temples - like Abu Simbel, cut into the ... from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block - the whole statue would have originally weighed ...

On Saturday, sun’s alignment with the face of King Ramses II at the Abu Simbel Temple was obscured ... illuminating the face of King Ramses II and his statues. While the sunlight falls on ...