This article is more than 6 years old. The site of Abu Simbel is one of Egypt’s most awe-inspiring structures, albeit not the easiest one to visit.

Besides their grandeur, the Abu Simbel temples are notable because they were moved in 1964 to make way for the High Aswan Dam. ... Hidden messages found on 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Paris; ...

Brief synthesis . The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae lie in the Governorate of Aswan. It is a serial property of ten component parts covering 374.48 ha: Abu Simbel, Amada, Wadi Sebua, ...

In November 1963, workers using wire saws started slicing them up. More than a thousand blocks, each weighing some 30 tons, were numbered, moved to storage and finally reassembled within a specially ...

Ramses II wanted there to be absolutely no question which pharaoh had built the magnificent temple at Abu Simbel. At its entrance, four 60-plus-foot-tall seated statues of him serve as sentries.

Archaeology: Salvation for Abu Simbel. 3 minute read. TIME. June 21, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-4. For five years the problem was attacked by the world’s most imaginative engineers.

A model of the temple at Abu Simbel, built by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II about 1,250 years before the birth of Christ. The temple, in southern Egypt, had to be moved in the 1960s to save it ...

In 1968, the temples of Abu Simbel officially reopened, while the sacred site they had occupied for over 3,000 years disappeared beneath Lake Nasser. Sometimes, archaeology gets big.

Deputy Aswan Governor Ghada Abu Zeid inspected the construction of the first tourist walkway in Abu Simbel, which is slated at a length of 600 meters at an estimated cost of about LE24 million, funded ...

A Abu Simbel is in the deep south of Egypt, overlooking Lake Nasser very close to the Sudanese border. Two astonishing rock-cut temples, dating from the reign of Ramesses II around 3,300 years ago ...