Still standing🛕 Temple & religious buildingAntiquity
Abu Simbel Temples
The temples attest to Egypt’s religious and political presence in Nubia. The international campaign to save them became an important model for later cooperation on World Heritage.
Photo: youssef_alam · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Facts
- Place
- Abu Simbel, Egypt
- Civilisation / patron
- Ancient Egypt, Nineteenth Dynasty
- Built
- c. 1264 BCE – 1244 BCE
- Status
- Still standing
- UNESCO World Heritage since
- 1979
- UNESCO World Heritage
History
Ramesses II had two rock-cut temples built in Nubia, with colossal statues on their façades. The Great Temple was dedicated to gods and the deified king, and the smaller one to Hathor and Queen Nefertari. Reliefs depicted royal rituals and military propaganda in a region under Egyptian rule. During construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, the temples were cut into blocks and moved to higher ground to prevent flooding.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Tempels van Aboe Simbel