🪷 During his pilgrimage to Egypt, #Antinous Priest #AntoniusSubia marveled as sunbeams illuminated the #AbuSimbel inner sanctum at sunrise, an alignment that occurs annually on Feb 22nd, the birthday of #RamesesII, and again on Oct 22nd, his coronation. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/antonius-subia-at-abu-simbel-as-sunrays.html 🪷

🪷 Sunbeams illuminate #AbuSimbel's inner sanctum at sunrise on 22 Feb (birthday of #RamesesII) and again at sunrise on 22 Oct, anniversary of the coronation of #RamsesII. It is possible grieving #Hadrian saw this phenomenon in Feb 131 AD. More here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/sunrays-illuminate-inner-sanctuary-of.html 🪷

🪷 During his pilgrimage to Egypt, #Antinous Priest #AntoniusSubia marveled as sunbeams illuminated #AbuSimbel's inner sanctum at sunrise, an alignment that occurs annually on 22 February, birthday of #RamesesII, and again on 22 October, his coronation. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/antonius-subia-at-abu-simbel-as-sunrays.html 🪷

This is my mother being approached by a vendor.

After the seeing the Abu Simbel temples, the only path to the parking lot is via the stores selling souvenirs and local goods. Our guide alerted us to the persistence of the vendors but we all understood that they needed to make a living.

One was so persistent and even gave us a friendly challenge, "if I guess what country you are from in 3 tries, you will buy this cloth from me."

I agreed. He could not guess from what country we were from even if I gave him 6 attempts to guess.

But we ended up buying whatever he was selling due to his good character.

Always be kind.


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My photos inside the small temple at Abu Simbel. The small temple is less impressive and is really much smaller inside.


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The size of the statues along the main hallway at the main temple of Abu Simbel.


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My video inside the main temple facing towards the entrance. You can see the tourists, and this was not even the peak season.

My wife is telling me to take a photo of her in between the 2 huge statues.


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My photos (and selfies) of the four statues inside the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, which are of the gods Amun-Ra, Ptah, Ra-Horakhty, and the deified king Ramesses II. The statues are carved into a black wall in the sanctuary of the temple.

The architects of ancient Egypt in the 13th century BCE aligned the temple so that on October 22 and February 22, the sun’s rays enter into the sanctuary to illuminate the sculptures on the wall, except for the statue of Ptah, the god associated with the underworld, which remains in shadow.

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My photos inside the main temple at Abu Simbel. It was crowded with tourists.

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