Archaeologist Dr. Ahmed Masoud, Director General of Abu Simbel Antiquities South, said Aswan That there were about 2,000 visitors who witnessed the phenomenon of the sun perpendicular to the face of Ramesses in his great temple in the tourist city of Abu Simbel.
He pointed out that among the visitors were about 1,850 foreign tourists of various international nationalities who were keen to enter the temple approximately three hours before the sun’s perpendicular phenomenon, and they lined up in the longest tourist queue to follow and watch the phenomenon.
Perpendicular to the sun
It should be noted that the phenomenon of the perpendicular sun began at exactly six o’clock and twenty-two minutes in the morning and lasted for only about twenty minutes, as the sun’s rays crept in from its setting in the city of Abu Simbel, penetrating the Great Temple and touching the face of the statue of Ramesses II on the platform of the Holy of Holies in a rare astronomical phenomenon that only occurs twice a year, February 22 and October 22.
