For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nile, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river. In an ...

Ramses II (the Great ... Some of the greatest monuments on any tour of Egypt bear his stamp: Abu Simbel, Karnak and Luxor Temples, the Ramesseum, and many others. He also commissioned the largest ...

The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae are the most illustrious of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (Egypt), listed as World Heritage since 1979.

This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, which were saved from the rising waters of the ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

The ministry of antiquities announced the discovery of an ancient palace belongs to Ramses II, which was attached to his temple in Abydos, Sohag. The discovery was made by researchers from the New ...

The second-best view, though, is right up close, where you can touch the sandy walls and adore the tall, seated statues of Pharaoh Ramses II ... the rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel in southern ...

Ramses' most famous works include the temples of Karnak, Luxor and Abu Simbel, which was cut into rock. The pharaoh was celebrated by his people for his monumental buildings and quickly became ...

On Thursday, El-Enany and the ambassadors toured the Abu Simbel temple and parts of the Ramses II temple. On Friday, the group also visited the temple of the wife of King Ramses II, Queen Nefertari.

Since 1250 B.C., the seated colossi of Abu Simbel have stared fixedly across ... fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari.