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Aswan UNESCO world heritage sites( Egypt )

Aswan centre

Tombs of the Nobles at Street 7, Abu AR Rish Qebli
These rock tombs located on the West Bank’s cliffs used to be where Elephantine island’s governors, priests, and other grandees were buried during the Old and Middle Kingdoms.
Monastery of St. Simeon on Luxor Aswan El-Gharby
Due to a shortage of water, the monastery was abandoned in the 13th century but remains one of the best preserved Coptic monasteries in Egypt.
Elephantine ruins on Sheyakhah Oula
Highlights of the ruins include a small 4th-dynasty pyramid that we believe was built by Sneferu (2613–2589 BC); a chapel (number 15), reconstructed from the Temple of Kalabsha (that is now just south of the High Dam); a renovated 18th-dynasty temple (number 2) dedicated to goddess Satet; and the temple of Khnum.
The Fatimid Cemetery at Al Gabana Al Fatemeya
The domes are built on a drum with corners sticking out like horns, a feature unique to southern Egypt.
Unfinished Obelisk on Sheyakhah Oula
This is a 41 meters (0.02 miles) long and 4 meters (0.002 miles) wide piece of stone is believed to have been abandoned because of a crack in it. If the obelisk was completed, it would have been the largest ever.

Aswan south

Philae Temple at Island of Agilika
Philas was moved lock-stock-and-barrel from its original home on Philae Island to nearby (higher) Agilika Island where it sits today, 12 kilometers (7.45 miles) south of Aswan.
Kalabsha Temple at N23 57 39.16 E32 52 01.02
This group of temples was saved from the Nile waters by UNESCO and relocated to the banks of Lake Nasser. Kalabsha temple is the best preserved of three temples and was built on a site of an earlier temple founded by Amenhotep II and re-built in the Ptolemaic Dinasty.
Temple of Derr at Desert of Abo Sembel Center
It is the only rock-cut temple in Nubia which was constructed by this pharaoh on the right (or east) bank of the Nile and used to stand at el-Derr.
Temple of Amada at N22 43 52.1 E32 15 45.4
Dedicated, like many temples in Nubia, to the gods Amun-Ra and Ra-Horakhty, it has some of the finest and best-preserved reliefs of any Nubian monument and contains two important historical inscriptions.
Abu Simbel twin temples at N22 20 14 E31 37 32.9
The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. They serve as a lasting monument to the king and his queen Nefertari, and commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic.