Abercrombie & Kent (A&K) expands its roster of Small Group Journeys to Egypt through two new itineraries and new departure ...

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The solar alignment occurs on February 22 and October 22 each year, which are days associated with the agricultural and harvest seasons for the ancient Egyptians. Tourists admire the colossal ...

Security services at the Abu Simbel Temple, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt, thwarted a British tourist’s attempt to bury his mother’s remains inside the temple on Sunday upon her request. Security at ...

as the temples of Abu Simbel. The twin temples of Abu Simbel were originally carved out of the mountainside in the deserts of Nubia, Upper Egypt, in the 13th century B.C.E. Nubia, which borders ...

open image in gallery The twin temples at Abu Simbel in Egypt are dedicated to Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari (AFP/Getty) Q I am planning to visit Egypt in October and want to go to Abu Simbel.

At the twin temples of Abu Simbel, in Egypt’s southernmost province of Aswan, four colossal 65-foot-tall statues of Ramses II flank the main entrance to the Greater Temple. The statues were the ...

Tourists visit the Great Temple of Abu Simbel during the Sun Festival in Aswan, Egypt, Feb. 22, 2024. During the Sun Festival, which falls on Feb. 22 and Oct. 22 every year, rays of the morning ...

More than 6,000 tourists of different nationalities have visited Abu Simbel temples, including two awe-inspiring temples of King Ramses II and his wife Nefertari, in southern Aswan, Abu Simbel chief ...

Dr. Nuria Sanz, Head of UNESCO Cairo, paid a field visit of several days to Abu Simbel Temples accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA). The objective was to ...