The same gigantic dimensions that make Abu Simbel so impressive as a monument make it almost impossible to move. Most of the other monuments threatened by the High Dass have been moved to safety ...

More than a thousand blocks, each weighing some 30 tons, were numbered, moved to storage and finally reassembled within a specially built artificial cliff, 64 m above the old site and 180 m inland.

The festivities then moved to Abu Simbel, where concluding performances were held at the temple square and in the city market, allowing citizens and foreign visitors to follow the events in ...

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 ...

Other than Abu Simbel and Philae, the property includes the temples of ... Through the praiseworthy and meticulously considered efforts to save the monuments moved during the UNESCO campaign, not only ...

Sudanese people walk with belongings after crossing the border from Sudan, Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, on May 18, 2023. On Monday, the United Nations called for global action and $6 billion to ...

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 ...