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PHOTO OF THE DAY July 31, 2003  

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Where Abu Simbel, Egypt
When 1998
Photographer Richard T. Nowitz

Detailed hieroglyphics line the base of a temple. Just beneath are carvings depicting slaves captured by Pharaoh Ramses II.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Into an Antique Land: Egypt's Greatest Hits," March 1999, Traveler magazine)

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