From 1960 to 1980, UNESCO orchestrated the gigantic project. Archaeological research in the flood areas was intensified, yielding exciting new discoveries. In all, 22 monuments and complexes were ...

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 ...

Rex Keating provides a report on the 3-year project to disassemble, move, and reassemble the Temple of Abu Simbel, as part of UNESCO's Nubia Project. Keating's report includes a more general ...

A film on the archaeological significance of the huge Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel and their dissection and removal, stone by stone, to higher grounds out of the reach of the waters of the Nile. on ...

Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure ...

More than 3.000 years ago, Ramses II. Pharaoh of Egypt, had his slaves cut a magnificent temple out of a sandstone cliff beside the Nile. Four colossal figures, designed as monuments to the ...

The programme begins with BBC archive interviews and eyewitness accounts of the opening of the Aswan Dam and the UNESCO-led (United ... to rescue the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising waters ...

Here are some articles to help you plan out your trip: Located in the town of Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt ... Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, they were dismantled and moved to a safer ...