The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel ... asked UNESCO for help to safeguard their precious Nubian heritage. This is where the story of the World Heritage Convention begins. UNESCO took up the ...

In 1960, a new dam on the Nile threatened Ramses II’s temples at Abu Simbel and other ancient ... to launch the most complex archaeological rescue mission of all time: to move entire sites ...

In 1963, with the initiative of UNESCO, Abu Simbel, an entire temple, was relocated to prevent damage from the raised water levels on Lake Nasser. Remembered as the largest heritage rescue in history, ...

If Abu Simbel ... submerge Abu Simbel's exquisite temples. In an effort to prevent the temples’ destruction, Unesco embarked on its first-ever collaborative international rescue effort (the ...

This is the story of an archaeological rescue operation ... launched at UNESCO headquarters in 1960, allowed for twenty-two architectural complexes to be moved and protected from water. Among these ...

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 ...

Between 1960 and 1980 the Unesco ... Abu Simbel, were dismantled stone by stone and painstakingly rebuilt on higher ground. Four others were donated to the countries that contributed to the rescue ...

How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report ...

If Abu Simbel ... submerge Abu Simbel's exquisite temples. In an effort to prevent the temples’ destruction, Unesco embarked on its first-ever collaborative international rescue effort (the ...