A modern Atlantis: ancient Kush to be sunk by dam project
Posted in news, conservation, archaology on June 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Most people have heard the famous story about how Rameses the Great’s temple at Abu Simbel was rescued from being submerged entirely by the rising waters of Lake Nasser caused by the Aswan Dam project. The entire temple was dismantled and relocated block by block to higher ground in a project that cost 80 million […]
