Abu Simbel Temples - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The temple is the fictional field headquarters of MI6 in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, containing M's office, a conference room, and Q's laboratory.
  • The temple is a setting of the 1978 film Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, where the statues "sing" because of the wind in the crevices (similar to wind blowing over a bottle).
  • The temple is shown in 2001's The Mummy Returns, as a way to the Oasis of Ahm-Shere.
  • Team America mistakenly blows up the temple when they miss fleeing terrorists in Team America: World Police (2004).
  • The temple can be seen briefly in the background of the city-planet of Coruscant when Queen Amidala's ship first arrives in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace.
  • In Anne Michaels' second novel The Winter Vault the relocation of Abu Simbel is one of the main themes.
  • The temple is a playable tomb in The Sims 3: World Adventures.
  • In the video game TimeSplitters, the entrance to the tomb in the first level – "1935 Tomb" – looks like Abu Simbel, except that the fourth statue is broken in addition to the second.
  • The 1985 computer game Abu Simbel Profanation written by Dinamic Software and released by Gremlin Graphics in the UK, has gameplay based around the temples and Egyptian setting.
  • In the book by Matthew Reilly - The Six Sacred Stones, the lead character - Captain Jack West Jr., leads an expedition to the temple to locate the fictional First Vertex, and to place a "Piller" in said Vertex.

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