Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve ... According to this plan, all the rock above the temple would be cut away and the whole mass enclosed in concrete.

Carved out of solid rock in the 13th century BCE ... 22 monuments and complexes were saved by 40 technical missions from five continents. Massive temples, notably those of Abu Simbel and Philae, were ...

The monuments of the property include exceptional architecture, such as the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, carved out of an escarpment of solid rock. Its design and layout allow rays of the sun to ...

In an unparalleled feat of engineering, the rock temple was taken apart and re-erected on a site sixty metres higher and further away from the Nile. This silent movie shows some of the challenges the ...

He built the rock temples of Abu Simbel and his own mortuary temple at Thebes. The tomb of his principal wife Nefertari, also at Thebes, is one of the best-preserved royal tombs. Rameses ...

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 ...