Abu Simbel
UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Egypt
Facts
22 properties- Instance of
- archaeological site, temple complex, architectural ensemble
- Inception
- 1274 BC
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Abu Simbel
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 22.337°, 31.626°
- Area
- +41.7
- Commissioned by
- Ramesses II
- Copyright status
- public domain
- Country of origin
- Egyptian Empire
- Culture
- Ancient Egypt
- Described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Lexicon of Egyptology (1. Edition), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Riegerův slovník naučný, Belarusian encyclopedia
- Discoverer or inventor
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- Fabrication method
- rock-cut architecture
- Has part(s)
- Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Small Temple of Abu Simbel
- Heritage designation
- part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Aswan Governorate
- Name in hiero markup
- pr:Z1 <-U6-C12-C2-F31-S29-U6->
- Native label
- أبو سمبل, 𓉐𓏤𓏤 𓍹𓌸𓁩𓁛𓄟𓋴𓌸𓍺
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Significant event
- structure relocation
- Time of discovery or invention
- 1813
🏷️ Also known as
en Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel
en Temples at Abu Simbel
en Abu Simbel
en Abu Simbel temples
ar ابو سمبل
ar أبو سمبل
ar معبد أبوسمبل
ar أبوسمبل
ar معبد أبو سمبل
cs Abú Simbel
cs Abu Simbel
cs Abú Simbel - Velký chrám
de Tempel von Abu Simbel
el Αμπού Σιμπέλ
el Αμπού Σίμπελ
es Abú Simbel
es Abu Simbal
fa ابو سیمبل
fr temples d'Abou Simbel
fr Abu Simbel
🔖 Identifiers · 35
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Großer Tempel (Abu Simbel) 31.jpg ↗
- Atlas Obscura place ID
- the-temple-of-abu-simbel-egypt-nubia-egypt
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 11965974b
- Biblissima authority ID
- Le Temple
- De Agostini ID
- Abu+Simbel
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
- 37047
- Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID
- abu-simbel_res-07aea4ec-8c5f-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51, abu-simbel, abu-simbel_res-9e496455-66b1-11e1-b491-d5ce3506d72e
- Fandom article ID
- ancientegypt:Abu_Simbel
- Freebase ID
- /m/01xjnk
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -289276
- GeoNames ID
- 362040
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7001444
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- Google Doodle
- abu-simbel
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- abu-simbel
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0000395
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 661983
- Kulturenvanteri monument ID
- 300404
- Lex ID
- Abu_Simbel
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge1211249
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX462512
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3865333
- OpenStreetMap way ID
- 594065767, 1079728124
- Pleiades ID
- 721417202
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID
- 15
- Treccani ID
- abu-simbel
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- abu-simbel_res-5fc693e5-8bab-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51, abu-simbel
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 33
- Vici.org ID
- 21196
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Temples_d'Abou_Simbel
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- abu-simbelas
- WikiKids ID
- Aboe_Simbel
- World Heritage Site ID
- 88-001
- World History Encyclopedia ID
- Abu_Simbel
- Yale LUX ID
- place/29e927a9-b492-469b-81b6-f88cc7f0bd76
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Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Johann Ludwig Burckhardt[1]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Aswan Governorate[2]
- Country: Egypt[3]
- Instance of: temple complex[4], architectural ensemble[5]
- Commissioned by: Ramesses II[6]
- Location: Abu Simbel[7]
- Part of: Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae[8]
- Country of origin: New Kingdom of Egypt[9]
- Has part(s): Great Temple of Abu Simbel[10], Small Temple of Abu Simbel[11]
- Inception: 1274 BC[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1813[13]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Lexicon of Egyptology (1. Edition)[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[19], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[20], Slovník naučný[21], Belarusian encyclopedia[22]
- Heritage designation: part of UNESCO World Heritage Site[23]
- Native label: أبو سمبل[24], 𓉐𓏤𓏤 𓍹𓌸𓁩𓁛𓄟𓋴𓌸𓍺[25]
- Area: 41.7 ha[26]
- Fabrication method: rock-cut architecture[27]
- Culture: Ancient Egypt[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[29]
- Copyright status: public domain[30]
- Name in hiero markup: pr:Z1 <-U6-C12-C2-F31-S29-U6-><sup id="cite-C73" class="cite-ref" title="Abu Simbel — name in hiero markup (P7383): pr:Z1 <-U6-C12-C2-F31-S29-U6->">[31]