Numerous Egyptians and tourists are interested in the phenomena of the sunburst on Ramses’ face at the Abu Simbel temple near Aswan. At a time when the sun lights up the face of Ramses, the pioneers and visitors begin to depict the event and follow it as a miracle that reveals the arrival of the ancient Egyptians to unique astronomical accounts recorded by a continuous phenomenon to this day, October 22 In which the sun is perpendicular to Ramses II.
Every year, on February 22 and October 22, the sun’s rays are perpendicular to the “Holy of Holies” in the temples of Abu Simbel, where they penetrate the structure up to the sanctity of the Holies, which is about sixty metres from the entrance. However, the sun is not perpendicular to the statue of “Batah,” who the ancients believed to be the god of darkness.
The front corridor of the second Ramses Temple’s entry allows light to pass through for 60 metres before reaching the Holy of Holies.
The phenomenon of sunburry takes 20 minutes and may reach 25 minutes, and the Abu Simbel Temple was transferred after cutting it to save him from drowning under the waters of Lake Al Sadd from its old location that was carved inside the mountain to its current location, and this phenomenon has been repeated on October 22 and February 22 since then The second sun was perpendicular to October 21 before its transfer, changing the latitudes and length after the temple was moved 120 metres west and 60 metres high, a day earlier than what was usual before.
The sun is perpendicular to Ramses for two reasons: first, the ancient Egyptians built the temple using astronomical movements to predict the beginning of the growing and harvest seasons, and second, the orthopaedic occurs twice, once on the day of King Ramses II’s birth and again on the day of its coronation.
The winter of 1874 saw the discovery of the sunburry phenomena, which British author “Emilia Edward” and the accompanying team observed and documented for her book “A Thousand Miles Over the Nile,” which was published in 1899.
the Governor of Aswan, Major General Ashraf Attia
The sun directly overhead at Abu Simbel (1)
The sun perpendicular to Abu Simbel (2) The sun perpendicular to Abu Simbel (3).
The sun is perpendicular to the face of Ramses .. an occurrence that demonstrates how astronomy evolved among the Pharaohs
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