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Landmark Middle East archaeological World Heritage

Abu Simbel

1264 BCE – still standing

Massive rock temples carved by Ramesses II on the banks of Lake Nasser

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Abu Simbel on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1500 BCE)
  2. Kush (1000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Meroe (500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Kush (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Meroe (323 BCE–400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Makuria (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Nobatia (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Makuria (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1279 CE–1500 CE)
  10. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Egypt (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Ottoman Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Egypt (1815 CE–1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. United Arab Republic (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Egypt (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Iran

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Eritrean–Ethiopian War

1998 CE – 2000 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1264 BCE and 2026 CE.

1208 BCE Sea Peoples Invasions 1100 BCE Aramean Migrations & Wars 1010 BCE Wars of David & Solomon 957 BCE Temple of Solomon 800 BCE Heracleion

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE King David Figure · Israel / Judah 1040 BCE – 970 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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