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Temple of Ramses
Location: Abu Simbel, Egypt
Date: 13th century B.C.
Building Type: Egyptian Temple
Building Structure: Carved out of rock
Interesting Facts:
 The temple is 38 meters long and 31 meters high.
 The door way to enter the temple is 7 meters tall
 At the front of the temple are four statues of Ramses.
 Each of the four statues are 20 meters high
 This temple is named after Ramses who was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the
nineteenth dynasty.
 Ramses is known to be the most powerful and the best ruler in Egypt.
 Ramses built this temple in honor of himself.
 The temple lays in the bend of the Nile River
 In the 1960’s, the Nile River began to flood which cause the water to rise up to
the feet of the temple.
 To keep the temple from being flooded many people dug it up and moved it to a
higher elevation.
Websites:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Travel/MiddleEast/AbuSimbelTempleCloseup1.jpg
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/abusimbel/ramses/ramses.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptemples.html