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PHOTO OF THE DAY May 19, 2003  

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

Ramses II, in statue form, stares out over the Nile River from a temple that bears his name. The pharaoh ruled ancient Egypt for some 66 years.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in "Into an Antique Land: Egypt's Greatest Hits," March 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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