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    Ramses II was a virile and opulent king of Egypt who reigned for 67 years. He fought costly wars, sired over 100 children, and erected grand monuments across Egypt, including two massive temples cut into the cliffs at Abu Simbel. To save these temples from being flooded by the rising waters of Lake Nasser formed by the Aswan High Dam, the structures are undergoing a vast project to raise them 200 feet higher.

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    Ramses II was a virile and opulent king of Egypt who reigned for 67 years. He fought costly wars, sired over 100 children, and erected grand monuments across Egypt, including two massive temples cut into the cliffs at Abu Simbel. To save these temples from being flooded by the rising waters of Lake Nasser formed by the Aswan High Dam, the structures are undergoing a vast project to raise them 200 feet higher.

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    MASSIVE REMINDERS OF A VIRILE KING

    Ramses II, called "the Great", earned that accolade Among his monuments were two huge temples cut
    by doing things on a grand scale and with enormous into the cliffs at Abu Simbel. Today these structures
    gusto. In an opulent 67-year reign he waged an ex- are involved in a project vast enough to delight
    travagant war against a coalition of Asian states led the King himself: to save the temples from inunda-
    by the Hittites, sired more than 100 children, and tion by an artificial lake to be created by the As-
    erected Egypt's biggest and showiest buildings. wan High Dam, both are being raised 200 feet.

    GUARDIAN STATUES, four depicting Ramses II and two his wife


    Nofretari, stand in niches flanking the entrance to the Queen's
    temple, situated a few hundred feet north of the King's shrine.
    A GIGANTIC EFFIGY, one of four 67-foot-high statues of Ramses
    II, looks out over the River Nile at Abu Simbel. The figures at the
    bottom represent a few members of the immediate royal family. 23

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