Facade of the Temple of Abu Simbel from the north
The great rock-cut Temple of Abu Simbel built during the reign of Ramesses II (r. ca. 1279-1213 BC) and dedicated to the sun gods Amun-Ra and Ra-Horakhty. Ramesses reign was notable for a dramatic upsurge in the rate of temple building.
Carved out of a sandstone cliff on the west bank of the Nile, south of Korosko (modern Kuruskū), the temples were unknown to the outside world until their rediscovery in 1813 by the Swiss researcher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. They were first explored in 1817 by the early Egyptologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
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