Abu Simbel’s solar alignment this week coincided with the 50th anniversary of the salvage and relocation of its temples ... the sun’s rays travel through the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel ...

The Great Temple of Abu Simbel is fronted by four giant figures of Ramses II. It is difficult to tell that they were once cut into a multitude of pieces as part of the relocation effort.

Construction of the temple complex to commemorate ... location near the water. The relocation was a four year long undertaking. In 1968, the temples of Abu Simbel officially reopened, while ...

Entitled “Abu Simbel in the Eyes of Painters," a plastic art exhibition is to be organised at the footsteps of the temple where a ... 21 October but after the relocation it shifted one day.

However, in a remarkable feat of engineering, the temple complex was dismantled and rebuilt on a higher hill to make way for the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. Built in 1244 B.C., Abu Simbel ...

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 ...