A Global event for the sun passes over the face of a statue of King Ramses II 2013

A Global event for the sun passes over the face of a statue of King Ramses II 2013

Aswan - EgyptA Global event for the sun passes over the face of a statue of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel temple, A rare astronomical phenomenon, which is repeated twice a year, on 22 October and 22 February.

Celebrated thousands of tourists Sun passes over the face of the king Ramses II a unique phenomenon in Abu Simbel temple''''south of Aswan, in the festive atmosphere of mystery, magic degrading Pharaonic impressive.
The number of tourists who came from all over the world to witness this event is about 5 thousands of tourists gathered around the temple and they fastened their eyes on the screens located outside established by the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

 

A Global event for the sun passes over the face of a statue of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel  temple, A rare astronomical phenomenon, which is repeated twice a year, on 22 October and 22 February, coinciding with the onset of agriculture in ancient Egypt, but Tamayora on his face Vetoakp in February with the beginning of the harvest season.

He stressed that what was known about the phenomenon of the sun passes occur on the day of the birth of the king and his coronation day is the ''command has no scientific basis'' pointing out that there was no record of birth in ancient Egypt.

The director raised the Abu Simbel temples of Nubia The Egyptologist Scottish specialist in the study of the age of Ramses II, said that on the coronation of King falls on the eighteenth of June, The phenomenon of the sun passes in the temple of Abu Simbel is associated with the legend of Nubian celebrated by the Nubians even today.

Remember the legend that displays her Nubian researcher Abul Qasim Muhammad Hashim The sun is out of the ''softening'' in the eastern side of the River Nile, southern hill is called the ''sense'' Mchakil end the sun and the northern hill and similar so-called ''hard work'' meaning stone sun, Legend says that the sun is down through these Altlin in the Holy of Holies in what Nubians ''Sun celebrate the marriage of the beautiful Nubian queen Nefertari of King Ramses II''.

The event sun passes over the statue of Ramses were taking place on 21 October and February 21 before 1964 and after the transfer of the Temple of Abu Simbel from its old to its current location within the project to save the monuments of Nubia has become the incident is repeated on 22 October and Feb. 22 and to change the latitude and longitude after the transfer of temple 120 meters west and 60 meters high.

 

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