Ramses built the larger temple in his own honor ... show a life usually absent from later Egyptian art. The same gigantic dimensions that make Abu Simbel so impressive as a monument make it ...

including foreign and Egyptian tourists, gathered at the temple before sunrise, hoping to witness the astronomical event. The solar alignment phenomenon at Abu Simbel occurs on February 22 and ...

Covered in hieroglyphs and ornate carvings of people, birds and boats, this tan oddity really is a marvel, etched out to ...

In each of the great periods of Egyptian history, there was ... The monuments of the property include exceptional architecture, such as the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, carved out of an escarpment of ...

Some of the greatest monuments on any tour of Egypt bear his stamp: Abu Simbel, Karnak and Luxor Temples ... Can you locate two Egyptian crosses, or ankhs, somewhere in this image?

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More than 3,000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nile, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of ...

The Centre has requested the Egyptian Government to confirm the demolition of the constructions. The Secretariat informed the Bureau that the structure erected opposite the Abu Simbel Temple for a ...

Rex Keating provides a report on the 3-year project to disassemble, move, and reassemble the Temple of Abu Simbel, as part of UNESCO's Nubia Project. Keating's report includes a more general ...