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Ramesses II's greatest monument, the huge temple at Abu Simbel (inaugurated in 1256 BC). carved out of a sandstone cliff

Ramesses II's greatest monument, the huge temple at Abu Simbel (inaugurated in 1256 BC). carved out of a sandstone cliff

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 Dinesh
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Reading Ramesses the Great

The shift in Champollion’s conception of the hieroglyphs had started when he received copies of various reliefs and inscriptions from ancient Egyptian temples in September 1822. One of them, from the temple of Abu Simbel in Nubia, contained intriguing cartouches. They appeared to write the same name in variety of ways. Champollion wondered if his new alphabet derived much later Graeco-Roman inscription s, might apply to this set of purely Egyptian inscriptions. The last two signs were familiar to him, having the phonetic value ‘s’. Using his knowledge of Coptic, he guessed that the first sign had the value re, which was the Coptic word for ‘sun’ -- the object apparently symbolized by the sign. Did any ancient Egyptian ruler with a name that resembled R(e)?ss exist? Champollion immediately thought of Ramesses, a king of the 19th dynasty mentioned in a well-known Greek history of Egypt writeen by a Ptolemaic historian, Manetho. ~ Page 32

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 Dimas Sequeira
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Impressive temple with a fascinating interior!
2 years ago.

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