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Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel , Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt,.The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam reservoir. As part of International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.

Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Aswan (Egypt), The Copts form the majority of Christians in Egypt. This Cathedral is relatively new, having been consecrated in 2006. Its modern Coptic architecture is stunning! A huge white building with two towers and domes is getting its finishing touches in stages.

The island, as a whole, constitutes the Aswan Botanical Garden. One can view the many types of subtropical, exotic, and rare plantings and trees such as the Royal Palm tree and the Sabal Palm tree. The collection was begun by Lord Kitchener and cared for since.

The railway station is in the centre of town, at the entrance of Sharia As Souq bout 150 metres from the river bank.

Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth. The museum features artifacts from Nubia,. In 1990, a new department was inaugurated. It displayed findings that were discovered on Elephantine island itself,

El-Tabia Mosque is a mosque in Aswan, Egypt. The mosque is surrounded by scenic gardens. Located amidst a park on a hill in the center of Aswan, It reveals a typical architecture of central-dome mosques having an arched entrance, flanked in this case by two minarets, and the prayer hall beneath a central dome.

El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt. It is less than a kilometer long and its width is less than ½ a kilometer. The Aswan Botanical Garden is located on the island. named after Lord Kitchener who owned it. He was gifted the island, when he served as Consul-General in Egypt from 29 September 1911 to June 1914.

Saint Simeon Monastery is located in the vicinity of Aswan, on Elephantine Island in the Nile River . Saint Simeon Monastery was built by a monk during the 7th century and was subsequently dedicated to a 4th century local saint by the name of Anba Hedra. By the time work on the monastery was completed in the 10th century, it provided accommodation for around 300 monks, and it had room for roughly 100 pilgrims.

New Kalabsha is a promontory located near Aswan in Egypt. The Temple of Kalabsha (or Temple of Mandulis) is the major structure in New Kalabsha. The entire Roman Period temple to the sun god Mandulis was relocated here in 1970. It was built by Emperor Augustus and was the largest free-standing temple of Egyptian Nubia. During relocation, the temple was cut into 13,000 blocks.

Nubia is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt).It was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, the Kerma culture, which lasted from around 2500 BC until its conquest by the New Kingdom of Egypt under Pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BC, whose heirs ruled most of Nubia for the next 400 years.

Qubbet el-Hawa or "Dome of the Wind" is a site on the western bank of the Nile, opposite Aswan, that serves as the resting place of ancient nobles and priests from the Old and Middle Kingdoms of ancient Egypt. The necropolis in use from the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt until the Roman Period.

The temple of Philae (also Hut-chenti, house of the beginning) is a temple complex in Upper Egypt, about eight kilometers south of Aswan. The temple complexes stand on the island of Agilkia after they were dismantled from 1977 to 1980 on the actual site, the now flooded island of Philae, and rebuilt about 600 meters northwest on the higher ground of Agilkia.

The Temple of Amada, the oldest Egyptian temple in Nubia, was first constructed by Pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th .As part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, along with Abu Simbel, Philae and other Nubian archaeological sites, Amada was relocated in the 1960s and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.

The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. It was studied in detail by Reginald Engelbach in 1922.The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 .