"The rock-cut temple of Ramesses II on the west bank of the nile at Abu Simbel is the greatest of the seven rock-cut temples which the king constructed in Nubia. The forecourt which fronted the temple ...

Twice a year at dawn, a shaft of sunlight cuts through Abu Simbel’s Great Temple to light three statues—and in doing so turns a tourist spectacle into evidence of ancient astronomical engineering ...

Sixty-five years ago, the monumental Abu Simbel was destined to disappear beneath the floodwaters of a new Nile dam. Then the first lady of the United States stepped in. After persuading her husband, ...

"The rock-cut temple of Ramesses II on the west bank of the Nile at Abu Simbel is the greatest of the seven rock-cut temples which the king constructed in Nubia. The forecourt which fronted the temple ...