Archaeological site · Egypt
New Amada Temples
عمدا الجديدة
Lake Nasser rescue site with Amada's temple, Ramesses II's rock-cut al-Derr and Penniut's decorated tomb.
Where it is
22.7311, 32.2626
Why go
Three Nubian monuments saved from Lake Nasser stand together at New Amada, some 160 km south of Aswan. The temple of Amada, begun by Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, kept vivid reliefs under later church plaster and records Amenhotep II’s Levant campaign. Ramesses II’s rock-cut temple of al-Derr, moved from across the river in 1964, echoes Abu Simbel with four seated gods in its sanctuary and well-coloured reliefs. The decorated tomb of Penniut, a Ramesside deputy governor of Lower Nubia, was brought from Aniba.
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