Gps Coordinates / 22.3371901,31.6258048
Great Temple Of Ramesses II Egypt Tourism VR Map Links
Abu Simbel, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
Gps Coordinates / 22.3369373,31.6252999
In 1257 BCE, Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-13 BCE) had two temples carved out of solid rock at a site on the west bank of the Nile south of Aswan in the land of Nubia and known today as Abu Simbel. Long before Ramses II, the site had been sacred to Hathor of Absek. The temple built by Ramses, however, was dedicated to the sun gods Amon-Re and Re-Horakhte. Because of their remote location near the Sudanese border in southern Egypt, the temples were unknown until their rediscovery in 1813. They were first explored in 1817 by the Egyptologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
Gps Coordinates / 22.3368616,31.6263755
With the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, the temples were threatened with submersion under the rising waters of the reservoir (Lake Nassar). Between 1964 and 1966, a project sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Egyptian government disassembled both temples and reconstructed them on top of the cliff 200 feet above the original site.
Gps Coordinates / 22.3374186,31.6268783
View the Great Temple Of Ramesses II from Google Maps Aerial View
