Carvings on top of a pillar at the Abu Simbel temple in Egypt

These are the hieroglyphs at the top of a pillar on the entrance wall of the Abu Simbel temple in south Egypt. The Abu Simbel temple was built in south Egypt as a means of projecting the power of the great Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, especially to visitors from the south who were coming on the river Nile. The current position of the temple is after the massive engineering project of the 1960's, when it was clear that the temple would be submerged by the rising water of the Lake Nasser caused by the construction of the mega dam at Aswan and it was restored at a higher location.

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