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The Egyptian government gifted the Temple of Dendur to the United States in 1965 in recognition of the American assistance in saving Nubian monuments from the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam.
Constructed around 15 BC, the temple was built during the Roman occupation of Egypt under Emperor Augustus.
The temple was dismantled and transported to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where it was reconstructed in 1978.
The Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was specifically designed to house the Temple of Dendur, featuring a reflecting pool and a glass wall overlooking Central Park.
The temple's reliefs depict the gods Isis, Osiris, and Horus, as well as the Roman Emperor Augustus in the guise of a pharaoh.
The temple was originally situated on the west bank of the Nile River in Nubia, a region that is now part of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
It is one of only a handful of Egyptian temples that have been relocated and reconstructed outside of Egypt, making it a unique cultural artifact in the United States.
