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 ...

Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture and power supply ... Massive temples, notably those of Abu Simbel and Philae, were relocated. Total cost came to US$80 million, ...

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 ...

Scientific and Cultural Organisation), international campaign to rescue the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising waters of the dam in the 1950's and 60's. In Paris we uncover the labyrinthine ...

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 ...