Sixty-five years ago, the monumental Abu Simbel was destined to disappear beneath the floodwaters of a new Nile dam. Then the ...
For five years the problem was attacked by the world’s most imaginative engineers. Scheme after intricate scheme was devised on their drawing boards. Offer after expensive offer was made to save the ...
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They Had One Chance to Save 3,000 Years of History
When Egypt built the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, it promised progress - but also posed a devastating threat to history. Rising waters from the Nile would have swallowed entire ancient temples, ...
The photograph depicts wall decoration on removed columns from the Temples of Ramses II displaying the king in a gesture of offering to the gods. "The great temple of Ramses II and the neighboring ...
In “Empress of the Nile,” Lynne Olson tells the story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the archaeologist who broke into a notoriously misogynistic men’s club: Egyptology. Aiding in the preservation ...
2008 Map “Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae” Overlayed on ESA 1:50,000 Topographical Maps”. In colour. Scale by calculation ~ 1:28,500A3. Shows boundaries of component 088-001 Clarification / ...
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