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Inside Nefertari’s temple at Abu Simbel, built for her by Rameses II. Carved in stone next to him, depicting her as goddess Hathor as that’s how he saw her – the goddess of love, music and joy. Abu Simbel is one of my favourite sites we visit. Not just because of the vast and impressive scale of the temples carved into the mountains and surrounded by water, but because of the powerful devotion of love made visible. In his inscriptions he wrote that ‘her sweat was like perfume and that her presen

31K views · 3.5K reactions | Abu Simbel was carved straight into a...