BCE: Abu Simbel Temple Complex echoes with the grandeur of Ramesses the Great. More than just a Pharaoh, he has built this ...

After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

Going the extra mile When Nefertari died, she was sealed into her tomb as was customary. Ramesses then ordered two enormous temples to be built, carved out of the cliffs of Abu Simbel in Nubia, south ...

Harp music filled the evening air of Abu Simbel as the guests of the Ministry of Antiquities took their seats in a gala dinner at Queen Nefertari Temple in Abu Simbel’s archaeological area on ...

The Abu Simbel temple is the only one in Egypt I haven’t been to, so it was a really great experience,” said Louka. “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs” is open through May 23.

Nefertari was the second and favourite wife of the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled over ancient Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC, ... Near his huge temple in Abu Simbel, ...

Nevine El-Aref, Thursday 25 Oct 2018. Abu Simbel’s solar alignment this week coincided with the 50th anniversary of the salvage and relocation of its temples ...