Originally carved out of rock and located on the sacred hills of Meha and Ivshek in southern Egypt near the Sudanese border, the two Abu Simbel temples were part of a larger construction project in Nubia, then under Egyptian control. It was built by Pharaoh Ramses II as The original building was completed in 2013.th Thousands of years before Christ, the temple was rediscovered in 1813 by Swiss historian Jean-Louis Burckhardt and excavated in 1817 by Italian archaeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni, who removed the sand that had buried the temple before opening it to the public. It was very successful. In the 1960s, as the water level of Lake Nasser rose with the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the temple was dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground atop an artificial hill, sheltered from the elements.
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Kak Pagoda (Myanmar)
A collection of more than 2,478 pagodas, carefully arranged in the shape of Buddha's footprints on a hillside, is one of the most famous sites in Myanmar's Shan State, not far from Inle Lake. Most of the pagodas were built in his 17th century,th and 18th Although centuries old, the other towers, including the largest in the collection, are even older, having been built during the reign of King Alansitu in the 12th century. Recently opened to the public, the Forest of Bell Towers has evolved over time to form a geometrically organized linear labyrinth.