Photograph with caption: Abu Simbel 9th Sept[ember 1898].
Item
Title
Photograph with caption: Abu Simbel 9th Sept[ember 1898].
Description
As Lake Nasser was filling up, the huge Pharaonic temple at Abu Simbel – also doomed to be drowned – was rescued in an extraordinary international collaboration (steered by UNESCO’s Nubia Campaign), in which the entire temple was cut from the hillside and rebuilt in its current location 140 miles south of Aswan. [FN 11/2020]
Image 28, left side, middle row
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
9 September 1898
Format
PhysicalObject
Identifier
GGC404_121
Space/Place
Abu Simbel, Sudan
Rights
© Royal Engineers Museum