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Please upload one website on your assigned Pharaoh with an explaination telling the class why this is a good site. Also include at least one interesting fact about the pharaoh you learned from this site.

[|Ramses II (The Great, The Builder)] Interesting fact: Ramses temple the built at Abu Simbel, which on the outiside has four sixty foot tall statues of himself. The temple extends 200 feet into the side of a limestone cliff and contians several chambers. The first chamber is lined with thirty foot tall statues of himself. The most remarkable thing about this momument is that its current location is not its original. During the 1960 when the Aswan High Dam was being built, it was discovered that this momument would be submerged in the lake created behind the dam. An international group raced against time to cut the monument into small moveable pieces and take it apart block by block. The temple was rebuilt slighty down river and higher up the cliff. This helped to preserve one the the greatest monuments Ramses built during his long reign.

This website is good because it provides the reader with a variety of information in an easy to read format. Along with the information there are many pictures that show the scenes being discussed. This website has many links to other topics dealing with Egyptian history.