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 ...

Size-wise, it's relatively small, for temple standards at the time, with an area of about 336-square feet and a height of 43 feet. In early 1960, the Egyptian Government began construction of the ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan ... Dam was built between 1960 and 1970. Prior to ...

Summary of previous deliberations: Not applicable except the following history of the International Safeguarding Campaign 1960’ – 1970’ for information: The Campaign was launched to safeguard the site ...