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 ...

The two Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae are the ... In 1959, this magnificent relic risked annihilation. Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost ...

Digitized by the UNESCO Archives. A production of UNESCO and the Abu Simbel Joint Venture. When the work began on the High Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt, the two temples of Abu Simbel, carved in the living ...

The Nile will start rising next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam ... The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over ...