Abu Simbel: A Short Guide to the Temples

by Nigel Fletcher-Jones

An indispensable companion and guide to one of the world's great archaeological sites

The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun. Yet although they are among the most celebrated, visited, and photographed archaeological sites...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774169700
• ISBN13: 9789774169700
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 8.2"