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Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the Eastern delta of the Nile. Bastet, the cat-goddess, was the protectress of the city. Bubastis was the residence of the 22nd-24th Dynasties.
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Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the Eastern delta...

Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the Eastern delta of the Nile. Bastet, the cat-Goddess, was the protectress of the city. Bubastis was the residence of the 22nd-24th Dynasties.
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Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the Eastern delta...

Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the eastern delta of the Nile. Bastet, the Cat-Goddess, was the protectress of the city. Bubastis was the residence of the 22nd-24th Dynasties.
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Animal burial places, especially those of cats, in Bubastis in the eastern delta...

Ruins of Bubastis, a city in the eastern delta of the Nile River, residence of the 22nd-24th Dynasties (10th BCE).
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Ruins of Bubastis, a city in the eastern delta of the Nile River, resid...

The Sinai Desert, Egypt.
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The Sinai Desert, Egypt.

Santa Katarina Monastery with the Sinai range in the background, Egypt.
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Santa Katarina Monastery with the Sinai range in the backg...

Santa Katarina Monastery with the Sinai range in the background, Egypt.
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Santa Katarina Monastery with the Sinai range in the backg...

The "Burning Bush" outside the chapel of the Burning Bush, Monastery of Santa Katarina (15th), Sinai, Egypt.
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The "Burning Bush" outside the chapel of the Burning Bush, Monastery of Santa...

Steles, mostly from a 12th Dynasty (20th-18th BCE) temple of Hathor with proto-sinaitic inscriptions. The remains of the temple are on the site of turquoise mines exploited during the 18th Dynasty.
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Steles, mostly from a 12th Dynasty (20th-18th BCE) temple of Hathor with pr...

Temple of Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE) at Abu Simbel, on the shores of Lake Nasser. When the new high dam was built and the new lake flooded the banks of the Nile valley, the temple was relocated, under a UNESCO project, to a site 65 m higher and 210 m inland.
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Temple of Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE) at Abu Simbel, on the shores of Lake Na...

Colossal statue of Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE) from the facade of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel. The four statues of the pharaoh are 20m tall. Sun-god Ra with sun-disk in a niche in the background.
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Colossal statue of Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE) from the facade of the G...

Colossal statue of Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE), from the facade of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel. Statues of the pharaoh are 20 m tall. After the flooding of the new high dam, the temple was trans- ferred to a higher site under a UNESCO project in 1968.
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Colossal statue of Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE), from the facade of the G...