FILE - In this file photo taken on Feb. 8, 1966, the results of three-years of dismantling the temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt lie in a storage area behind the huge escarpment before being moved and re ...
Believe it or not, it is possible to move a mountain… literally! Abu Simbel: The campaign that revolutionized the international approach to safeguarding heritage. Saving the temples of Egypt and ...
Twice a year, at dawn, a blade of sunlight slips through the entrance of Egypt’s Great Temple at Abu Simbel, travels the length of a man-made cavern, and warms the stone faces of three gods and a ...
TURIN, Italy (AP) - Egyptologists and other experts gathered in Italy this week to celebrate a successful campaign to save ancient Egyptian temples from being submerged by a dam project 50 years ago ...
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