Kwame Nkrumah

The temples of Abou Simbel are two temples of ancient Egypt built by the Pharaon Ramsès {{II}} (-1304 - -1213) () for its Culte like that of Egyptian gods and its wife Néfertari with Abou Simbel in Egypt in the north of the Lac Nasser on the the Nile with approximately seventy kilometers of the second Cataracte of the Nile.

Rescue by UNESCO

In the Years 1960, whereas the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser makes build the High stopping of Aswan on the the Nile in the north of the Lac Nasser to produce electricity for the country, UNESCO undertakes to save flood its two monuments major of the World heritage located at the south of the lake.

The chief of work Nubie N of Ramsès {{II}}, located at the origin on the crowned hills of Méha and Ibshek, was entirely dismounted and rebuilds higher at the edge of the lake on a factitious hill safe from the rise of water.

The rescue of Abou Simbel represents for the Archéologie the installation of measurements issued by the UNESCO and which made admit with several countries the importance to preserve the World heritage.

Large temple

On the hill of Méha, the large temple is dedicated to Ramsès {{II}} and to the three large Egyptian gods Amon, Re and Ptah. At the entry, one finds four colossi of Ramsès sitting, of which one which would have broken its construction shortly after. The Pronaos is flanked of eight osiriaques pillars of ten meters to the features of Ramsès.

On the walls the two royal functions are represented:

Sekhem (power): Ritual of the massacre of the enemies and the Battle of Qadesh:

Heqa (government): Ceremonies of worship and offerings: on the left the king making offering of the vases nou with Ramsès {{II}} divinized, on the right in worship in front of Re-Horakhty.

At the bottom of the sanctuary the statues represent Ptah, Re-Horakhty, Ramsès and Amon-Re.

Built by Sétaou, Asian dignitary of origin which then occupied the load of viceroy of Nubie, the temple is laid out so that twice a year, the room where trônent the divine representations receives the regenerating solar rays.

Photo gallery of the large temple

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