This site, Abu Simbel Temples, south of Aswan along Lake Nasser's shore is the most renowned in all of Egypt after the Giza Pyramids. Worked by the best of the pharaohs, Ramesses II, which made it otherwise called the Temple of Ramses II or Ramesses II, these enormous stone cut sanctuaries denoted the southern limit of the Egyptian Empire with Nubia at the pinnacle of its capacity during the New Kingdom.