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Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser , about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan (about 300 km (190 mi) by road).
The Great Temple of Abu Simbel (ca. 1280 BCE), one of the earliest known examples of rock-cut architecture. Rock-cut architecture is the creation of structures, buildings, and sculptures by excavating solid rock where it naturally occurs. Intensely laborious when using ancient tools and methods, rock-cut architecture was presumably combined ...
Abu Simbel (also Abu Simbal, Ebsambul or Isambul; Arabic: أبو سنبل, romanized: Abū Sinbal or Arabic: أبو سمبل, romanized: Abū Simbal) is a village in the Egyptian part of Nubia, about 240 km (150 mi) southwest of Aswan and near the border with Sudan. As of 2012, it has about 2600 inhabitants.
The building was built to resemble the temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt on a smaller scale. It depicts Ramesses II, Nefertiti, and Hathor. [5] The second statue from the left on the building's front is missing as a reference to the missing statue on the original temple, which had disappeared shortly after it was originally built. [3]
Abu Simbel was built between Year 24 and Year 31 of Ramesses' reign. [8] According to Joyce Tyldesley, the Temple of Derr was built by Setau, who is known to have served as Ramesses' Viceroy of Kush or Nubia between Year 38 to 63 of this pharaoh's reign. [9] It was relocated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.
The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel on the western bank of the Nile was built as early as 1280 B.C. The temple complex, which includes a sanctuary and various chambers, was cut completely into the rock massif. [4] Other rock-cut structures are preserved mainly in Asia Minor and the Near East.
Articles relating to Abu Simbel, a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan (about 300 km (190 mi) by road).
A rock-cut chamber in the Great Temple of Abu Simbel. Thirteenth century BC. Temples were built throughout Upper and Lower Egypt, as well as at Egyptian-controlled oases in the Libyan Desert as far west as Siwa, and at outposts in the Sinai Peninsula such as Timna. In periods when Egypt dominated Nubia, Egyptian rulers also built temples there ...