KIDS: …Whoa, look at that. …It’s really pretty! …Gosh, it’s so beautiful. … This really is beautiful. … … It’s just like Egypt. Isn’t this so awesome?

JO: Hi! I’m Jo, and I work here at the Museum. Why don’t you join me and our Egyptian Gallery Explorers? We’re going to explore the Temple of Dendur with Isabel, the Egyptologist; she’s a curator here at the Museum.

ABEYAZ:How did you find this temple? Where was this in Egypt?

ISABEL: This building is called the Temple of Dendur. Dendur is the modern name of the place where it once stood in the very south of Egypt, in a region called Nubia.

JO: In the 1960s, the temple was taken apart and moved from the area to save it.It, and a lot of other ancient monuments, were going completely disappear under water when a new dam was built. Lots of countries helped to rescue these monuments, and as a thank you, Egypt gave this small temple as a gift to the United States.

MARIA: How old is this artifact?

ISABEL: The temple is over two thousand years old. It comes from a time when the Romans ruled over Egypt and it was built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 15 B.C.

MASATO: It has lots of hieroglyphs carved on it. And it has lots of pictures to tell, like, some kind of story, I think.

MARCO: Could you tell us part of the story?

JO: Let's just come up to one of the walls now and take a look at some of the pictures.

ISABEL: And if you look at all the images on the walls, you actually see what is happening inside the temple.

JO: Now walk up the first small staircase. Find a good place to stand so that you can see the images on the long wall of the temple.