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| Great Abu Simbel Temple |
Façade of the Great Abu Simbel Temple is about 33 metres high and 38 meters wide. It was cut 63 meters secret into the rocks. Four colossal 20 metre statues of
Ramses II, embodying the most important gods, decorate the façade of the Temple. Though large, the sculptors were creative in sculpture the Pharaoh’s pretty face and his spiritual smile that welcomes the shining sun. Previous the statues, there is a frame in which the names and titles of King Ramses II, the glorified, the born from the sun and the taken from it, were inscribed. Above the frame, there is a frieze of spiritual serpents, followed by other frieze of baboons in a row producing their arms in the air and, supposedly, worshipping the rising sun. The catch, in the middle of the façade, is crowned by the statue of God Ra-Hurakhti. Next to and between the legs of the four colossi, there are other statues, no higher than the knees of the Pharaoh, of the family of King Ramses II (his mother, his favored chief wife
Nefertari, and his sons and daughters).
