After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

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; ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

It is 3am. Aswan is dark and cold. I pull my jersey around me and sip my coffee. The streets, normally raucous and lively around the central souk, are quiet. Not even a stray dog stirs the litter ...

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 ...