UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | New Wadi es-Sebua, Egypt |
Part of | Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae |
Criteria | Cultural: (i)(iii)(vi) |
Reference | 88 |
Inscription | 1979 (3rd Session) |
The temples of Wadi es-Sebua ([ وادى السبوع ] Error: {{Langx}}: invalid parameter: |translate= (help), so-called because of the sphinx-lined approach to the temple forecourts), is a pair of New Kingdom Egyptian temples, including one speos temple constructed by the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II, in Lower Nubia.[1]
As part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, along with Abu Simbel, Philae, Amada, and other Nubian archaeological sites, the temples at Wadi es-Sebua were relocated in the 1960s and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.[2]