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Moving an Egyptian temple stone by stone

Around 1960, The Egyptian monument, Abu Simbel, was at risk of being lost forever. Construction of the Aswan High Dam was under way, which would cause mass flooding of areas further down the Nile. In ...
On the western shore of Lake Nasser in southern Egypt, Abu Simbel presents two colossal rock-cut temples carved for Ramesses ...
Ramses the Great returning today would create an extraordinary collision between ancient Egypt and the modern world. After ...