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Be dwarfed by the majestic Ramses Il at Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel, Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan.
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Be dwarfed by the majestic Ramses Il at Abu Simbel
EGYPT // You'll be served a taste of pharaonic ego when you stand. dwarfed, in front of the 20m-high (66ft) statues of King Ramses Il that guard the entrance to Abu Simbel's Great Temple. Along with the neighbouring Temple of Hathor, this complex was carved out of the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244 BC and stood sentinel over the road south for centuries. Abu Simbel's temples were saved from destruction during the building of the Aswan High Dam. An international rescue campaign relocated them block by gargantuan block to their current site on the shore of Lake Nasser. Today Abu Simbel is as much a monument to this modern engineering triumph as it is to Ramses Il's puffed-up pride.