UNESCO - Saving Abu Simbel
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 rock which rises from the banks of the Nile, were threatened with destruction. In following the course of the International Campaign launched by UNESCO in 1960, the film reveals the archaeological significance of the temples. It shows how they were dismantled and removed stone by stone to higher ground, where, reconstructed, they now stand in all their grandeur, orientated as before towards the river and the sun. https://on.unesco.org/2z4oM9L |
