Twice a year, at dawn, a blade of sunlight slips through the entrance of Egypt’s Great Temple at Abu Simbel, travels the length of a man-made cavern, and warms the stone faces of three gods and a ...
The Sun aligned on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 on face of King Ramses II’s statue at his great temple in Abu Simbel, southern Aswan a unique astronomical phenomenon continued for around 3,300 years.
For five years the problem was attacked by the world’s most imaginative engineers. Scheme after intricate scheme was devised on their drawing boards. Offer after expensive offer was made to save the ...
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