Monday, July 18, 2011

Time lapse: Egypt's Abu Simbel Temple... arrival by water is especially stirring

The self-glorification of pharaoh Rameses is sometimes hard to resist

Arriving by cruise boat on Lake Nasser at the temple of Abu Simbel is especially stirring. Here's a time-lapse series of shots in video form.



(sorry, video may not play on iPads etc)

Here's how fiction's Egyptologist hero Anson Hunter tells it in 'The Ibis Apocalypse'... third in my ancient Egypt series of adventure novels.