Siege scene Chrome 9 September 1963

9 September 1963

Five years later

Statues inside the Temple of Abu Simbel built during the reign of Rameses II (ruled 1279-1212 BC) and dedicated to the sun gods Amon-Re and Re-Horakhte

Plate 19 from Plates Illustrative of the Researches in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Siege scene Chrome 9 September 1963Siege scene, c1260, (1843). Copy of a manuscript illustration showing a party preparing to attempt the breach which has been made in the tower. Others are raised by means of a wooden machine to fight on an equality with soldiers on the walls. On the right, similar expedients are adopted to raise the men in the ships. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London,