Hillock and view of Lake Nasser at the Abu Simbel temple in south Egypt

The temple of Abu Simbel in South Egypt is a very famous temple, famous because of the location and grandeur of the temple as well as the effort needed for the conservation of the temple. Due to the construction of the High Dam at Aswan with the creation of the large reservoir, the temple was going to be submerged under the rising waters of the River Nile. It took an incredible engineering effort in the 1960's to take the temple apart from its original location, block by block, and then place it at a new location inside artificial hillocks. The photo shows a view of the artificial hillock along with a view of the water of Lake Nasser and with some great cloud cover overhead.

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