Entrance to the Great Temple at Abu Simbel
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In 1959 an international donations campaign to save the monuments of Nubia began: the southernmost relics of this ancient human civilization were under threat from the rising waters of the Nile that were about to result from the construction of the Aswan High Dam. This image gives a perspective view of the entrance hall, in which are seen eight standing colossal statues 33 feet high, supported by square piers.1
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Egyptian architecture, rock temple, entrance hall, ipsamboul, abu simbel, nubian monument, unesco world heritage site, archaeological siteGalleries
Egyptian ArchitectureSource
A. Rosengarten, W. Collett-Sandars A Handbook of Architectural Styles (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)
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