The large temple was not completely uncovered until 1909.
The Italian Giovanni Battista Belzoni began excavating the temple in 1817. When the Swiss researcher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt allowed a local guide to lead him to a site in Abu Simbel in 1813, he discovered another architectural monument by chance - the remains of the temples of Ramesses II and his wife Nefertari. These sites were covered by sand over the course of time. In the 13th century BCE, Pharaoh Ramesses II commissioned a number of gigantic construction projects, including the temples of Abu Simbel, the tomb of the Ramesseum in Thebes, and the new capital of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta. Statues outside the temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, colored lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849, via Wellcome CollectionĪbu Simbel is located about 174 miles southwest of Aswan and about 62 miles away from the Sudanese border.
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