Continue south to Aswan, where the boat will moor for two nights. Visit the High Dam, the Old Granite Quarries with its Unfinished Obelisk, then take a motor boat to the Temple of Philae on an island.

Its preservation is a result of Spain's assistance in protecting the ancient sites of Abu Simbel from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The temple's decorative motifs ...

I feel for the ancient stonemasons who were forced to abandon their work when cracks started appearing in the granite – the beautiful Temple of Philae, and the controversial Aswan Dam.

But for all its magnificence, the Temple of Abu Simbel is apparently ... of muddy water backed up by the High Dam being built at Aswan 180 miles downstream. Up the Cliff. Many schemes have been ...

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 Abu Simbel temple in the early 1960s was a first act to recognize this idea. UNESCO launched an international safeguarding campaign to save monuments in Nubia from being flooded by the waters of ...

DAY 4: PHILAE TEMPLE COMPLEX AND THE TEMPLE OF KOM OMBO Today, you will venture just past the Aswan Low Dam with a visit to the Philae temple complex. Situated on a small island, the complex ...

The Great Temple, fronted by four colossal 21-metre statues of Ramses ... In 1959, this magnificent relic risked annihilation. Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture ...

The programme begins with BBC archive interviews and eyewitness accounts of the opening of the Aswan Dam and the UNESCO-led (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ...