A senior member of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council discussed the rehabilitation of vital infrastructure, including bridges ...

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 ...

Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture and power supply ... Massive temples, notably those of Abu Simbel and Philae, were relocated. Total cost came to US$80 million, ...

April 6, 2025 (ABU SIMBEL, Egypt) – Hundreds of Sudanese citizens returning home are facing significant delays and overcrowding at the Abu Simbel border crossing in southern Egypt, with many ...

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 ...

Abu Simbel Temples The Abu Simbel Temple stands ... at a higher elevation in 1960 due to the construction of a nearby dam. Tomb of King Tutankhamen Tutankhamen is considered to be the most famous ...

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 ...