In addition, Abu Simbel has a second, smaller, temple that may have been built ... It contains six pillars that show depictions of the goddess Hathor. Zecchi notes that on the “back wall of ...

Ten of them, including the temple complexes of Philae, Kalabsha and Abu Simbel, were dismantled stone by stone and painstakingly rebuilt on higher ground. Four others were donated to the countries ...

The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over the vulgarity of profuse ornamentation. Abu Simbel's sheet size and its perfect integration with the ...

The twin temples of Abu Simbel were originally carved out of the ... It was dedicated primarily to the goddess Hathor, often associated with music, dance, love, and joy. At about 40 feet high ...

Inside the main sanctuary, one can see the image of Goddess Hathor. When the high dam was being constructed on the river Nile at Aswan, there was a concern that the rising water level at Abu Simbel ...

However, this time the equinox coincides with the golden jubilee of the Abu Simbel temples salvage operation. Hamdi El-Sotouhi, the founder of Abu Simbel salvage campaign, describes this year’s ...

The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae are the most illustrious of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (Egypt), listed as World Heritage since 1979.

Security services at the Abu Simbel Temple, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt, thwarted a British tourist’s attempt to bury his mother’s remains inside the temple on Sunday upon her request. Security at ...

Ten of them, including the temple complexes of Philae, Kalabsha and Abu Simbel, were dismantled stone by stone and painstakingly rebuilt on higher ground. Four others were donated to the countries ...

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 ...