Temple of Dendur
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The Temple of Dendur is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis, Nubia about 80 kilometres south of modern Aswan. Around 23 BCE, Emperor Augustus commissioned the temple dedic
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Temple complex drawing, 1817
Photograph of the temple, 1867
Temple installation at the Met (2007)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art mus
Temple of Dendur
…to Save the Monuments of Nubia, UNESCO helped rescue and relocate the temple from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam. Egypt gave the temple to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which has exhibited it since 1978. Petronius, the Roman governor of Egypt, built the Temple of Dendur at the request of Caesar Augustus…
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