Pharaoh's birthday

A woman posing for a picture as the light of dawn shown on the statues of Pharaoh Ramses II (right) and Amun, the God of Light (left), in the inner sanctum of the temple of Abu Simbel, located at the upper reaches of the Nile, around 1,264 kilometres...

A woman posing for a picture as the light of dawn shown on the statues of Pharaoh Ramses II (right) and Amun, the God of Light (left), in the inner sanctum of the temple of Abu Simbel, located at the upper reaches of the Nile, around 1,264 kilometres south of Cairo, Egypt, yesterday. The axis of the temple was designed so as to allow the rays of the sun to shine into the inner sanctuary only on Ramses II's birthday and his coronation.

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