Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure ...

including the Abu Simbel temples, but they were were preserved by moving them to the shores of the lake under the UNESCO Nubia Campaign. Here are stories from Deseret News archives about the dam ...

The programme begins with BBC archive interviews and eyewitness accounts of the opening of the Aswan Dam and the UNESCO-led (United ... to rescue the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising waters ...

Here are some articles to help you plan out your trip: Located in the town of Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt ... Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, they were dismantled and moved to a safer ...