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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tourists visit the Great Temple of Abu Simbel during the Sun Festival in Aswan, Egypt, Feb. 22, 2024. During the Sun Festival, which falls on Feb. 22 and Oct. 22 every year, ...