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Egypt's Twice-Annual Sun Phenomenon Wows Crowds

by VOA News

   Visitors from across the world gathered Thursday in Aswan, Egypt, for a
   rare glimpse of a unique event that still amazes the world - when the
   sun rays go inside the corridor of the Abu Simbel temples and
   perpendicular on the faces of Ramses II, his wife, Queen Nefertari and
   the god Amun on the back wall. It happens twice a year on the same two
   dates: October 22, Ramses II's birthday, and on his coronation day,
   February 22.