Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve ... next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the ...

The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae are ... In 1959, this magnificent relic risked annihilation. Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its ...

The Campaign was launched to safeguard the site from the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which would flood the valley containing the Abu Simbel Temples, a treasure of ancient Egyptian ...

The Israeli website Nziv stirred controversy by describing a hypothetical attack on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. This prompted a strong and immediate response from Egyptian politicians ...

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan in an area that was flooded when the Aswan High Dam ...

This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, which were saved from the rising waters of the ...

For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nile, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river. In an ...