The great Sun Temple of Abu Simbel ("Father of the Ear of Corn") epitomizes the monumentalism of the New Kingdom during its imperial heyday, when Ramses II waged colonial wars. To impress his power on the Nubians, Ramses had four gigantic statues of himself with unblinking stare confronting travellers as they entered Egypt from Africa.
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