Talk:Abu Simbel

message: In the Edit of 18:00, 21 April 2008, an anonymous contributor stated that the temple is briefly seen in Star Wars Episode One.  I watched that scene from the DVD several times in slow motion, but I couldn't see it.  Has anyone else verified this contributor's claim? — Schoch6 (talk) 23:58, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted it. Nobody seems to have images online showing the temple in the film, and it's not as if this bit of trivia would have any significance even if it were true. Best to err on the side of caution. A. Parrot (talk) 21:38, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

text: Well, all that the special-effects people would have to do is insert an image of the temple into the crowded CGI cityscape, as some kind of in-joke or something. Special-effects people are known to do that sort of thing. But even if they did that, it's hardly of pressing importance to include here. A. Parrot (talk) 06:14, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: In Popular Culture

message: I understand that a representation of the Garden of Eden was found in this temple (Godfrey Higgins, Esq., Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis; or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions, 2 vols. (new York: J. W. Bouton, 1878), vol. 1, p.403.). Could this information be added?
:Looks good to me, should it be mentioned in the same section as Ramesses II's claimed victory in the battle of Battle of Khadesh and other pictographic depictions or should it have its own section bringing in suggestion to the depiction of Eden in other temples from near the same era?  (specificly, I mean, Mesopatamian temples from the Assyrian and Sumerian ruling periods.)  Personally I would like to see it be paralleled with the depictions that other cultures fabricated.  -Tristram Shandy
 What is the English translation of Abu Simbel I wonder? It is an Arabic term "Father of..........?"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.206.96 (talk) 07:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Garden of Eden

message: Is anyone aware of the singing statues, presumably because of the wind in the crevices?  It is mentioned in the Agatha Christie film "Death on the Nile".  What did it supposedly signigy?  Does it still do this since the temple was moved (the film/book are set in the 1930s)  If anyone can add info, that would be great.  Thanks!--Cbradshaw 03:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Singing statues?

message: Should be something on the Abu Simbel Greek inscription... AnonMoos (talk) 16:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Greek inscription

message: Abu Simbel is a town of some 9 th inhabitants. The article should be titled Abu Simbel temples. --peyerk (talk) 20:31, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong title 

message: I'm a new user and I dont know exactly where to ask my question, but I arrived here so I'll write it: in this version of Abu Simbel, the english, the construction dates are from "approximately 1264 B.C. until 1244 B.C."; in the spanish version (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel) the dates are different "approximately 1284 B.C. until 1264 B.C." If anyone knows the correct ones please change them if you can. Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Respawiki (talk • contribs) 10:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: The caption "The gods Set (left) and Horus (right) adoring Ramesses in the small temple at Abu Simbel" makes me a bit uncomfortable.  Are the gods really adoring him? I think "blessing" or perhaps "anointing" would be better, so in the spirit of BRD I've changed it to "bless." If someone can document that Rameses' ego was so big that he expected the gods to adore him rather than the other way around, I'll take my reversion like a primate (no, not by screaming imprecations and hurling poo: I'm a more mature, dignified primate).
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 23:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small Temple 

message: Hi
Could someone explain why this article is called its current title rather than the official title of Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae?
Thanks
John Cummings (talk) 10:26, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  This article is about the two temples at the site of Abu Simbel. "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" is a UNESCO designation that lumps together several sites, including Philae, Amada, Maharraqa, and Kalabsha. They were all built in different periods of Egyptian history and not very close to one another; Abu Simbel is 140 miles from Philae. A. Parrot (talk) 21:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article 

message: this is the only instance in Egyptian art that the statues of the king and his consort have equal size - wrong, refer to earlier statues of Amenhotep III and Tiye.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SubRE (talk • contribs) 08:42, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  08:07, 5 February 2017‎ change 

message: https://ores.wmflabs.org/v2/scores/enwiki/wp10/787370480 -- Prose-proem (talk) 15:04, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  c class 

message: Any idea why the statues in the sanctuary (The deepest part of the temple) are so eroded/disfigured. Because of UNESCO this must be one of the most studied temples in Egypt and yet I can find no explanation anywhere of why these statues, but no others in the temple are in such poor condition.
A second question I cannot find an answer to is this, if the temple was finished in, Let us just say in Ramses reign, why are the side chambers unfinished?
Any hints would be appreciatedSherlockh22 (talk) 22:54, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eroded Statues in the Sanctuary 

message: Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel is obviously redundant with this page, and this one is longer established, more widely linked within the wiki, and more frequently viewed (see the pageviews comparison for the past 30 days). The creator of the smaller page edited for only three days in 2013, so I don't anticipate any objection from that quarter. , thank you for proposing the merge; I wasn't even aware that Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel existed. 
For these reasons, I don't think a formal discussion is necessary: any usable content from that article should be moved here. Unless somebody objects, I'm going to look over that article and carry out the merge within the next week or so. A. Parrot (talk) 21:16, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've carried out the merge, though I didn't incorporate much from that article into this one. I only added some background information to the Construction section (in this edit) and changed the section structure of this article to reflect more detail about the temple artwork and layout, making it a little more like the structure of the merged article. A. Parrot (talk) 20:39, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 04:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 12 April 2021