Come take a day trip to Abu Simbel with me as I get exclusive access to the entire site. Todays special trip is free from tourists, bedouins or even guards -- so you will see the temples of Egypt like never before -- or ever again.

Abu Simbel is two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. They are situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan.

The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments", which run from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae. The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. They serve as a lasting monument to the king Ramesses II. His wife Nefertari and children can be seen in smaller figures by his feet, considered to be of lesser importance and were not given the same position of scale. This commemorates his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic.

The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michałowski, from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation of the temples was necessary or they would have been submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the River Nile. The project was carried out as part of the UNESCO Nubian Salvage Campaign

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Entry Path
2:18 Four Colossal's of Ramses
2:52 Entry Hypostle Hall
4:11 Osiris Statues
4:40 Ramses Smitting Libyans
5:16 Battle of Small Pillard Hall
6:10 Vestibule & Side Chambers
9:09 Great Hypostle Hall
10:26 Inner Sanctuary
10:50 Statue Ptah, Horokhty, Ramesses and Amun
14:25 Inner Storage Foyers
18:20 Great Hall
19:57 Exit Temple
21:48 Temple of Queen Nefertari
22:33 Ramses and Nefartari and goddess Hathor
23:01 Great Hall
25:17 Inner Santuary




Intro music produced by Ryan Booth at The JamBooth Recording Studio.
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