Click the Leopard for Great Safaris. Abu Simbel Temples: Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, full of voices from the distant yesterday, forever shining in … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, “The Egyptians do not all worship the same gods, excepting Isis and Osiris.” (Opening photo — The Pharaohs’ Bed Temple.) Osiris was the god … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com The ancient Pharaohs were preoccupied with death while in life; in 1937 fictional British crime writer Agatha Christie penned the famous tome, Death on the Nile at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com Ramses II ruled Upper and Lower Egypt. Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, full … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com Ramses II ruled Egypt for 67 years. The distance from the port of Alexandria to the Ramses II temples at Abu Simbel in the Nubian Desert is calculated at 964 … Continue reading →
