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ID number:372962
 
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Published: 29.01.2005.
Language: English
Level: Elementary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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These rock-cut temples are located in the ancient Wawat, or the legendary Ybsambul, in Nubia, near the borders of Sudan, about 300 kilometers from Aswan. Earlier temples in Nubia had been located within forts, but here the confidence of Ramses II, whose reign may have lasted as many as 67 years, is illustrated; these temples, probably once brightly colored, were cut into the natural rock and lapped by the Nile. After eleven centuries of oblivion, these temples were rediscovered in 1813 when Johann Ludwig Burckhardt saw by accident the upper parts of the colossal figures. …

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