Saturday, April 20, 2013

Great temple of Abu Simbel, best landscape in Egypt

Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel large, Egypt is a best landscape in the world and one of the works are impressive and best known of all the great books.

In 1960, Abu Simbel become exhibits in the UNESCO campaign to save the temple in Nunia threatened by the construction of the Aswan Dam caused. Between 1964 and 1968 both Abu Simbel temple was dismantled and reassembled on the top 65m compared to the original location. When the temple was carved into the rock, they must cut stone of the Temple of the handle of the blade was cut into 807 large giant boulders, each weighing an average of 20 tons of foundation. The platform is mounted on a concrete frame - reinforced concrete inside an artificial mountain, at a cost of approximately $ 40 million.

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