Temple of Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt was saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, growing behind the Aswan Dam, in a massive archaeological rescue plan sponsored by UNESCO in the 1960s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballana.
Ballana
Locality
Ballana was a cemetery in Lower Nubia. It, along with nearby Qustul, were excavated by Walter Bryan Emery between 1928 and 1931 as a rescue project before a second rising of the Aswan Low Dam. Ballana is situated 9 km southwest of Temple of Abu Simbel.
Temple of Abu Simbel
- Type: Ruin
- Also known as: “Abu Simbel temples”, “Abu Simbil”, “Abū Sunbul”, “Temple d’Abou Simbel”, and “Temple of Abu Simbil”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
22.33333° or 22° 20′ northLongitude
31.61667° or 31° 37′ eastElevation
179 metres (587 feet)Open location code
7GJH8JM8+8MGeoNames ID
362040
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Temple of Abu Simbel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبو سمبل”
- Arabic: “ابو سنبل”
- Bulgarian: “Абу Симбел”
- Catalan: “Abu Simbel”
- Chinese: “阿布辛拜勒神廟”
- Czech: “Abu Simbel”
- Czech: “Abú Simbel”
- Danish: “Abu Simbel”
- Dutch: “Aboe Simbel”
- Finnish: “Abu Simbel”
- French: “Temples d’Abou Simbel”
- Galician: “Abu Simbel”
- German: “Tempel von Abu Simbel”
- Hebrew: “מקדש אבו סימבל”
- Hebrew: “מקדשי אבו סימבל”
- Hungarian: “Abu Szimbel-i templomok”
- Italian: “Abu Simbel”
- Japanese: “アブ・シンベル神殿”
- Luxembourgish: “Abu Simbel”
- Malay: “Kuil Abu Simbel”
- Norwegian: “Abu Simbel”
- Persian: “ابوسمبل”
- Polish: “Abu Simbel”
- Portuguese: “Abu Simbel”
- Romanian: “Abu Simbel”
- Russian: “Абу-Симбел”
- Serbian: “Абу Симбел”
- Spanish: “Abu Simbel”
- Swedish: “Templen i Abu Simbel”
- Turkish: “Ebu Simbel”
- Ukrainian: “Абу-Сімбел”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Temple of Abu Simbel”. Photo: Than217, Public domain.