Word: simbel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imperious ruler of Egypt, albeit 32 centuries apart. Perhaps that was why President Anwar Sadat, the present ruler, leaned so solicitously over the glass-topped coffin of Pharaoh Ramses II last week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Three years ago the mummified pharaoh, who built Abu Simbel in the course of his 67-year rule, developed-well, a fungus and parasites. He was shipped to Paris to be cured of the condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...