But Abu Simbel presents a special case. Any effort to save it must be difficult and prohibitively expensive. The French proposed building a dam to protect it from the Aswan lake, but their plan ...

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 ...

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan in an area that was flooded when the Aswan High Dam ...

They urged the Sudanese consulate in Aswan to issue emergency travel documents to returnees to ease the congestion at Abu Simbel and allow Sudanese to use the Argeen crossing. An activist ...

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 Campaign was launched to safeguard the site from the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which would flood the valley containing the Abu Simbel Temples, a treasure of ancient Egyptian ...