Abu_Simbel

Abu Simbel Abu Simbel The great temples of Abu Simbel are located south of Aswan, in northern Nubia. Pharaoh Ramses II built this monument -- some say as a gesture of love for his wife Nefertari -- between 1290 and 1224 B.C., when most of Nubia was under Egyptian rule. The Abu Simbel temples were carved out of a mountain on the west bank of the Nile. There are two: the colossal temple of Ramses, which was dedicated to the Egyptian gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun, and Ptah, and to the deified pharaoh himself. The smaller temple of Nefertari was dedicated to Hathor, the cow-headed Egyptian goddess of love. In the doorway to the main temple are four statues of ramses, temple, nefertari, statues, simbel, pharaoh, gods, egyptian, abu, temples, smaller, ra-horakhty, nubia, love, hall, doorway, dedicated, 22, wife, west, wall, victorious, various, underworld, under, two, thrones, sunrise, sun-god, stands, south, solar, sit, shown, show, say