Seated colossus of Rameses II, Temple of Abu Simbel Product:Postcard January 1973 P016423

January 1973 P016423

Builders work on Islington Chapel

Vincenzo Viviani was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696

Four dead debtors

supposedly the first time they have been seen without their stage make up

Seated colossus of Rameses II, Temple of Abu Simbel Product:Postcard January 1973 P016423Seated colossus of Rameses II, Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, c1860 1890. The great rock cut Temple of Abu Simbel built during the reign of Rameses II (ruled 1279 1212 BC) and dedicated to the sun gods Amon Re and Re Horakhte. Rameses' reign was notable for a dramatic upsurge in the rate of temple building. The existence of the great temple at Abu Simbel was unknown outside Egypt in modern times until 1813. It was explored in 1817 by the Italian