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Abu Simbel temples
The Great Temple of Ramesses II (left) and the Small Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (right).
Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan (about 300 km (190 mi) by road). The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. Their huge external rock relief figures of Ramesses II have become iconic. His wife, Nefertari, and children can be seen in smaller figures by his feet. Sculptures inside the Great Temple commemorate Ramesses II's heroic leadership at the Battle of Kadesh.
The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam reservoir. As part of International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, an artificial hill was made from a domed structure to house the Abu Simbel Temples, under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michałowski, from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw.[1][2]
The Abu Simbel complex, and other relocated temples from Nubian sites such as Philae, Amada, Wadi es-Sebua, are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Nubian Monuments.[2]
AbuSimbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of AbuSimbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt,...
AbuSimbel Airport (IATA: ABS, ICAO: HEBL) is a regional airport in AbuSimbel, Egypt. In 2011, it served 119,326 passengers (-75.6% vs. 2010). List of...
of his biggest works, besides Pi-Ramesses, were the temple complex of AbuSimbel and the Ramesseum, a mortuary temple in western Thebes. Ramesses II moved...
home to 22 critical historical sites, including but not limited to the AbuSimbel temples; as well as the temples at Philae, Kalabsha and Amada. It was...
the Valley of the Queens. Ramesses also constructed a temple for her at AbuSimbel next to his colossal monument there. There are different interpretations...
the lake. The most famous of those that were rescued were temples at AbuSimbel which were broken down and relocated safely off the coast of Lake Nasser...
of the "Nubian Monuments from AbuSimbel to Philae" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between AbuSimbel and Philae). Its creation was...
The AbuSimbel Phoenician graffiti are a number of Phoenician inscriptions found on one of the colossal legs of the temples at AbuSimbel. They have been...
sons and first few daughters had statues at the entrance of the Greater AbuSimbel temple, although only Nefertari's children were depicted in the smaller...
of the "Nubian Monuments from AbuSimbel to Philae" (despite Elephantine being neither Nubian, nor between AbuSimbel and Philae). The island has been...
along with other outstanding examples of Nubian architecture including AbuSimbel and Amada. The temple was situated on the west bank of the Nile River...
MacQuitty became fascinated by the attempts to save the Great Temple of AbuSimbel from the flooding that would follow the completion of the Aswan High Dam...
philosophy of life. Sailing up the Nile as far as AbuSimbel in January 1850, she wrote of the AbuSimbel temples, "Sublime in the highest style of intellectual...
combined with the double crown, as it is on the statues of Ramesses II at AbuSimbel. The earliest depiction of the nemes, along with a uraeus, is the ivory...
Nefertari. She appears as the fourth daughter in the list of daughters in AbuSimbel and had at least four brothers: Amun-her-khepeshef, Pareherwenemef, Meryre...
monuments within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Nubian Monuments from AbuSimbel to Philae; these are the Old and Middle Kingdom tombs of Qubbet el-Hawa...
temples—most notably the Ramesseum in western Thebes and the rock temples of AbuSimbel. He covered the land from the Delta to Nubia with buildings in a way no...
concerns that several major historical sites, including the famous temple of AbuSimbel were about to be submerged by waters collected behind the dam. A rescue...
Since 2001, the Nubian Sandstone aquifer situated between the Toshka and AbuSimbel areas of Egypt has undergone intensive drilling and development as part...
Italy from December 2020". aaco.org. 20 January 2021. "Air Cairo files AbuSimbel – Aswan schedule from Oct 2019". routesonline.com. 26 July 2019. "Air...
technology, AbuSimbel, one of the most valuable of Egypt's monuments, was moved to a higher location. During the transfer of AbuSimbel, the idea developed...
La Boullaye-Le Gouz. The modern Egyptian Arabic name is أبو الهول (ʼabu alhōl / ʼabu alhawl IPA: [ʔabulhoːl], "The Terrifying One"; literally "Father of...
Principal among them are the Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza, the AbuSimbel temples south of Aswan and the Karnak Temple Complex and Valley of the...