Comments on O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen: Abu Simbel

@ Parag it reminds me of Newgrange in Northern Ire...

2010-09-21T17:07:23.805-04:00

@ Parag
it reminds me of Newgrange in Northern Ireland. On 21th of June and December (I think...) the sun illuminates the chamber for a few minutes. As far as I remember Newgrange was built 5000 years ago. It's interesting that different cultures in different ages still seem to honour the sun in the same way (or whatever they believed in and tried to state)
pretty asome I think :)

The axis of the Abu Simbel Temples is arranged so that on two days of the year, in February and October, the rising sun shoots its rays through the entrance and halls until it finally illuminates the sanctuary statues.It is beautiful.

Anonymous may be confusing Abu Simbel with the Sph...

2010-03-09T01:12:17.182-05:00

Anonymous may be confusing Abu Simbel with the Sphinx in Cairo (although this popular legend is apparently not true either).
http://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html

According to what I’ve read, it fell down shortly ...

2010-03-07T07:31:45.679-05:00

According to what I’ve read, it fell down shortly after its creation due to an earthquake. Insurance wouldn’t cover the damage, so they left it as is.

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS247&q=abu+simbel+earthquake&aq=f&aqi=&oq=

The 'disintergrated' statue was actually d...

2010-03-06T17:57:17.656-05:00

The 'disintergrated' statue was actually destroyed by Napoleon's forces when they occupied Egypt during Boneys' reign as Emporer of France. The Frenchs' Army Engineers tried to blow all of them up by using explosives in a drilled hole at the rear of the head of the statue (check the photograph). I don't know (or have forgotten) why the destruction only went this far, but