Lake Nasser stretches across the horizon as seen from the elevated grounds near Abu Simbel temple in Aswan, Upper Egypt. Two stone pillars stand in the dry terrain framed by sparse trees under a clear blue sky. Lake Nasser (Buḥayrat Nāṣir) is one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, and is closely associated with the relocation of the Abu Simbel temples — a UNESCO World Heritage Site.