The Lost Temples of Nubia

Any fan of ancient Egypt and learn about the rescue work carried out by Egypt and the international community to save the Nubian monuments located there from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam. More than 22 missions in various parts of the world actively excavating treasure buried in the Nubians which they live. Many have been rescued many monuments, and some have been built near their home in a high, and a number of others moved to Khartoum in Sudan, while others were still really small temples in view of the foreign governments that assisted in the rescue operation. These included the recent temples Temple Debod, and is now located in Park City in Madrid in Spain and the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in the temple of the cuttings from the newspaper Lessiya curve in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy, Temple Gate Kalabsha Ägyptisches in a museum in Berlin, Germany , and Taff temple in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, the Netherlands.
There is the Temple of Semnan, Kummer (Semna East), the two temples located in the famous castle Buhen, Temple Aksha (Serra West) and cuttings Djehutihotpe tomb was moved to Khartoum in Sudan.
What we hear less about the temples and structures lost in the waters of Lake Nasser. Certainly, a lot of people in the past, and some of the great strengths was much less of the lake, along with a fascinating series of temples. Here, we see that the best way possible some of these temples, which are lost now.
Quban (Coban)
Quban, known to the Egyptians, Greeks, and I am Baki Pselchis Contra, and remained on the east bank of the River Nile, and the opposite bench. It was probably the castle which was built in the early 12th Dynasty Sesostris I, but perhaps as a prelude to the Old Kingdom. Several Egyptologists have lost the most important under the waters of Lake Nasser, and the castles of Nubia, and perhaps more important for this reason small temples. Unfortunately, such a force might not have been saved from Lake Nasser, on the contrary of the temples that have been transferred, and provided more than clay bricks.
During the New Kingdom Quban was one of the most important centers in Egypt and Nubia, and control of gold mines in Wadi. It includes many of the temples, and that little is known today. Apparently, a number of blocks of this temple, it was used near the Temple of Dakka, who saved himself from the waters of Lake Nasser.
Mare (Pachora)
Horse was an important center in Nubia. During the third century, and was an important city in the Kingdom of Meroe, and since the eighth century was the capital of the Christian bishops in Nubia. In fact, this site is perhaps most famous as a center of early Christianity in the later effects of the sarcophagus.
This site, which was originally on the west bank of the River Nile between Abu Simbel and Wadi Halfa, and the destruction of the 18th Dynasty temple of Tutankhamun and the rocks again in the early Kingdom of the court chapel of Hathor Ibshek (perhaps originally from Tuthmosis III). The last temple was expanded during the reign of Tutankhamun and Ramses II. Temple built by King Tutankhamun has been designed in a symmetrical plan, consisting of a square courtyard, surrounded on both sides through the gallery (2 rows of columns). It also contains 12 columns with the Hall of columns and a sanctuary with attachments. There are hundreds of pieces found on this site are likely to Thmosid removed from the temple in the Second Cataract Buhen wine next.


Besides the temples discovered in the horse, and there were also the remains of a Christian basilica in the early dating back to the seventh or eighth century, the ruins of the Bishop Palace, a monastery for the principles and other debris. More than 120 paintings from the Byzantine and Coptic tempera on dry plaster was removed from these sites, many of whom remain in the Sudan, museums, the National Museum in Warsaw.


Mirgissa
Mirgissa was located in the Second Cataract of the Nile River on the west bank of the Nile River, about 15 miles south of Wadi Halfa. Here, was built on a New Kingdom temple of Hathor, and may replace a structure in the earlier era of the Middle Kingdom. Sites, but, as many of those who lost under Lake Nasser Mirgissa become more familiar to us as a fortress after the temples.
Of course, the list of potential archaeological sites lost in the waters of Lake Nasser is simply numerous. Large estates have been lost, but at the same time, one must first importance in life, most people in this part of Africa, particularly Egypt, and we will not discuss the value of the Aswan Dam in modern culture.