THE TEMPLE OF QUEEN HATSHEPSUT LARGELY REBUILT, THE VALLEY OF KINGS WHICH IS ON THE OPPOSITE BANK OF THE RIVER NILE FROM LUXOR. NOTE HOW FIGURES ARE DWARFED BY THE IMMENSITY.
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Accession Number
NAM.1995-06-88-2-79
Description
THE TEMPLE OF QUEEN HATSHEPSUT LARGELY REBUILT, THE VALLEY OF KINGS WHICH IS ON THE OPPOSITE BANK OF THE RIVER NILE FROM LUXOR. NOTE HOW FIGURES ARE DWARFED BY THE IMMENSITY. Photograph showing the frontage of a low wide building, built into the face of a steep desert cliff, faced by plain vertical columns with a broad centrally placed ramp leading to a roof, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, 1945 (c). A small group of tourists can be seen ascending the ramp. From an album of 164 photographs compiled by SQMS P C Sumsion Royal Army Ordnance Corps, while stationed in the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, 1945 (c).
Campaigns
World War Two (1939-1945)