Image Abu Simbel Temple Hall EG051389JHP by Jim Henderson

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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 Temple Hall EG051389JHP 
 Abu Simbel Great Temple entrance doorway rock cut Hall Osiride Ramses figures 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. This is as near as it is possible to photograph these days and an lighting exercise of some challenge to the cameras of 2005. 
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel Temple Hall EG051389JHP
Upload Date: 2002-10-25 08:42:52
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Abu Simbel Great Temple entrance doorway rock cut Hall Osiride

Ramses figures 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. This is as near as it is possible to photograph these days and an lighting exercise of some challenge to the cameras of 2005.
Keywords: Egypt, ancient, Egyptian, Lake Nasser, River Nile, Nubia, Abu Simbel, rock, carved, huge, Great Temple, upright, entrance, door, hall, Osiride, statues, Ramses, Ramasses, Ramesses, pharaoh, history, antiquity, archaeology, Egyptology, UNESCO, cliff, colourful, colorful, colours, colors