Temple of Gerf Hussein
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title:
Temple of Gerf Hussein
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The temple of Gerf Hussein was dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II and built by the Setau, Viceroy of Nubia. Situated on a bank of the Nile some 90 km south of Aswan, it was partly free-standing and partly cut from the rock. It was dedicated to "Ptah, Ptah-Tatenen and Hathor, and associated with Ramesses, 'the Great God.'" During the building of the Aswan dam project in the 1960s, as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, sections of the free-standing portion of this tem
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Archaeological site in Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Gerf_Hussein
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2023-11-16T14:13:34Z
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