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Over 3,000 people gather to witness rare astronomical event in Aswan

  • On Sunday morning, the sun was perpendicular to the statue of King Ramses II in his great temple in the tourist city of Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt’s Aswan
By Gobran Mohamed ·

Rare event at Ramses’ temple in Egypt draws crowds

By Gobran Mohamed ·

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