But Abu Simbel presents a special case. Any effort to save it must be difficult and prohibitively expensive. The French proposed building a dam to protect it from the Aswan lake, but their plan ...

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 ...

Digitized by the UNESCO Archives. A production of UNESCO and the Abu Simbel Joint Venture. When the work began on the High Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt, the two temples of Abu Simbel, carved in the living ...

The programme begins with BBC archive interviews and eyewitness accounts of the opening of the Aswan Dam and ... the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising waters of the dam in the 1950's and ...

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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 ...