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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 22, 2003  

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Where Abu Simbel, Egypt
When 1998
Photographer Richard T. Nowitz

"Inside Abu Simbel, 30-foot-tall [9-meter-tall] statues of the pharaoh make two visitors look tiny. The statues here portray Ramses II as Osiris, god of the afterlife, who helped the dead live for eternity."

—From "Towering Treasures of Ramses the Great," November 1998, World magazine (for kids)


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