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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,...
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    350; 31.617 Abu Simbel (also Abu Simbal, Ebsambul or Isambul; Arabic: أبو سنبل, romanized: Abū Sinbal or Arabic: أبو سمبل, romanized: Abū Simbal) is a...
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    Abu Simbel Airport (IATA: ABS, ICAO: HEBL) is a regional airport in Abu Simbel, Egypt. It also serves the Abu Simbel village. In 2011, it served 119,326...
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    home to 22 critical historical sites, including but not limited to the Abu Simbel temples; as well as the temples at Philae, Kalabsha and Amada. It was...
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    the Valley of the Queens. Ramesses also constructed a temple for her at Abu Simbel next to his colossal monument there. There are different interpretations...
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    of his biggest works, besides Pi-Ramesses, were the temple complex of Abu Simbel and the Ramesseum, a mortuary temple in western Thebes. Ramesses II moved...
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    the lake. The most famous of those that were rescued were temples at Abu Simbel which were broken down and relocated safely off the coast of Lake Nasser...
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    monuments within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae; these are the Old and Middle Kingdom tombs of Qubbet el-Hawa...
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  • Thumbnail for Abu Simbel Phoenician graffiti
    The Abu Simbel Phoenician graffiti are a number of Phoenician inscriptions found on one of the colossal legs of the temples at Abu Simbel. They have been...
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    of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite Elephantine being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). The island has been...
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  • featured in the film, such as the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and temples at Abu Simbel and Karnak. Death on the Nile won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design...
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    Egypt and create hydroelectricity meant the flooding of sites like Abu Simbel. Abu Simbel is a monument to Ramses II built of sandstone, and comprises two...
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    concerns that several major historical sites, including the famous temple of Abu Simbel were about to be submerged by waters collected behind the dam. A rescue...
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    expeditions, for instance the Yale Expedition at Abydos, Egypt in 1969, and Abu Simbel between 1972 and 1974. He sporadically taught Egyptian archaeology and...
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    temples—most notably the Ramesseum in western Thebes and the rock temples of Abu Simbel. He covered the land from the Delta to Nubia with buildings in a way no...
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    Kadesh inscriptions (category Abu Simbel)
    eight times, spread across temples in Abydos, Temple of Luxor, Karnak, Abu Simbel and the Ramesseum, and two hieratic papyri. The Poem of Pentaur (pntAwr...
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    of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). Its creation was...
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  • Principal among them are the Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza, the Abu Simbel temples south of Aswan and the Karnak Temple Complex and Valley of the...
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    combined with the double crown, as it is on the statues of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel. The earliest depiction of the nemes, along with a uraeus, is the ivory...
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    philosophy of life. Sailing up the Nile as far as Abu Simbel in January 1850, she wrote of the Abu Simbel temples, "Sublime in the highest style of intellectual...
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    along with other outstanding examples of Nubian architecture including Abu Simbel and Amada. The temple was situated on the west bank of the Nile River...
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    Cairo Alexandria Aswan Luxor Hurghada Abu Simbel Sharm el-Sheikh Siwa Bahariyya Suez Port Said Ismailia 27°00′N 30°00′E / 27.000°N 30.000°E / 27.000;...
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    800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, 22.51° north, 30.73° east. Today the region is characterized...
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  • expeditions occurred in the seasons 1962–63 and 1963–64; excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan border. The Coxe expeditions occurred in 1907–10 under the...
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    September 1822, while comparing his readings to a set of new texts from Abu Simbel, that he made the realization. Running down the street to find his brother...
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  • High Dam in Egypt, including a plan to flood the valley containing the Abu Simbel temples, caused several conflicts. In 1959, after an appeal from the governments...
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  • sons and first few daughters had statues at the entrance of the Greater Abu Simbel temple, although only Nefertari's children were depicted in the smaller...
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    Marsa Matrouh, the second connects the cities of Sixth of October and Abu Simbel, and the third connects the city of Qena with the cities of Hurghada and...
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  • Death on the Nile (2022 film) (category Abu Simbel)
    attraction to Salome. The party disembarks from the Karnak to visit the Abu Simbel Temples. After a boulder falls off a column and nearly crushes Linnet...
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    Italy from December 2020". aaco.org. 20 January 2021. "Air Cairo files Abu Simbel – Aswan schedule from Oct 2019". routesonline.com. 26 July 2019. "Air...
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