The smaller temple, dedicated to the Goddness Hathor and to Queen Nefertari is smaller with a façade 27 m high and 11m wide.
In 1964 the temples risked to disappear forever. In fact with the building of the new dam in Assuan the water of the Nile would have submerged them. The world of culture was mobilized: the temples were taken apart to pieces and rebuilt faithfully at 200m of distance from the original place.
The Sphinx: at little distance from the pyramids there is the sphinx. It was sculptured from a single stone to which the front paws were added. The face is a portrait of Chefren, deformed not by time but by the cannon shots of the Mamelucchi who had used it as a shooting range. The obelisks: from the Latin obeliscus short for the Greek word obelos “spit”, so “little spit”. Put in front of the buildings they were a kind of tourist guide for the building itself. In them, in fact, the history of the building was remembered, the eventual repairs and subsequent decorations with the names of the pharaohs who had dealt with them.