An indispensable companion and guide to one of the worlds great archaeological sites The threethousandyearold rockcut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun. Yet although they are among the most celebrated visited and photographed archaeological sites in the world the two temples are among the least understood by the