saving Abu Simbel temple saving Abu Simbel temple is one of the largest and most magnificent monuments of the ancient world. It is also an unusual one in not being a free-standing temple; its inner chambers were hewn out of the heart of a mountain. Aware that the building of the High Dam would result […]

Ramses II History Ramses II History  (c. 1290-1224 B.c.) was the second son of Seti 1, the Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh whose temples on the Theban necropoiis and at Abydos are well known. Ramses was born tkingship: ‘an inscription in his father’s mortuary temple at Abydos relates how he took the infant in his arms and […]