Ramesses’s Temple at Abu Simbel; or, Progress vs. History
2014-06-24
Ramesses’s temples at Abu Simbel are awesome for two reasons. The first is the incredible novelty of their construction: it’s dug into the rock face rather than built as temples commonly were. The second, however, is what happened to them in the 1960s. Ramesses II Ramesses never did anything smallContinue Reading