The most sensible solution to saving the Abu Simbel complex from the dam was prompted by the threat of building another dam to protect.
The temples 300 meters long and over 60 meters high in 1963 more experts came to Abu Simbel and found a solution. it was not agreed upon and time was pressing the valley soon it would be underwater.
The truth below was very different from what western engineers thought South Egypt was a remote region with no proper airport or roads.
The idea of a protective dam around the temple area is abandoned it did not look good in the future of the temple building but UNESCO refused to let go of the monuments that had to be removed from the ever-present lake.
Which may have been the main solution was to cut the temples and reassemble as close as possible to their real places the consortium of German companies Swedish and Swedish Egypt was authorized to do this by the Essen company.
He had to deal with local conditions were a cause for concern for engineers the problem was timely because the decision was made too late and we were facing floods.
When the Aswan dam was over and the floods started so we had to protect our temples called dams and finish demolishing them before the floodwaters flooded.
It was not an easy task The living conditions of the temple rescue workers were not good for when it was too late for me to sleep on the boat.
I entered an old rebellious house in a neighboring village and there was no one living there except for 40 or 50 large animals and the scorpions.
We crushed or threw stones at once. the scorpion bit me on the leg and I cried in pain for 24 hours when the groups entered Abu Simbel conditions gradually improved with the construction of workers' houses again engineers.
The largest luxury in the desert was a swimming pool a small town with flats with hospitals and even an airport all became part of the modern city of Abu Simbel some of the workers at the time were still alive.
After this rescue operation, they work as care workers
in the 1960s many workers were Nubians from above, watching the water slowly rise and flood the valley as well as their villages ancestors
In 1964 arrangements were made to cut down temples when 300 miles 300 km to the north the first part of Aswan's high dam was opened.
The Russians built a dam without worrying about what was going on up the river and had a plan and in order to save time they decided to fill the lake gradually by doing so and taking advantage of the Nile flood without really caring about what the temple salvation meant.
Water flows towards the area of the cofferdam temple required it was quickly built as the front door of the temple
covered with sand to protect.
From the demolition of building machinery the tunnel was built inside the monument and we supported the interior of the temple.
So that it would not collapse when the stones were moved over its passages and a scaffold was erected to keep people safe in their real place.
The demolition of the temple began in March 1964. three thousand engineers and workers took a stone rod from the top and the cutting was done in stages by seeing the saw saws come in large numbers.
Egyptologists anxiously considered the spaces should not be wider than the six-millimeter specially designed hand saws designed for precise work.
That could not be left on machines. tedious work cutting the ceiling inside was a race against the time when the lights were put in and the work went on day and night.
Two years later, on March 31, 1966, the temple was completely demolished as soon as water flowed into the site a temple puzzle larger.
Then it had to be transported a few hundred meters up the mountain by truck the road was built for this purpose temples were rebuilt 65 meters above the original site.
Extra care was taken to catalog and compile the blocks however, egyptologists were concerned about the state of the sculptures and drawings and any cutting marks should not be as noticeable as possible.
The heads of the heads were the deceptive parts of the rock and they were also taken to a new place but would the temple carry the burden.
Engineers are building a massive reinforced concrete shell temple building a 60-meter-wide dome in the middle of the desert was an impressive technological achievement. In September 1968 Abu simple temples opened in their new international community.
Temples still alive in the future Aswan's high dam was completed in 1970 and the water reservoir was renamed NASA Lake in 1976 and reached its full potential.
Abu Simbel may have been saved but some cultural treasures were in danger of not having enough time or money to save them and many monuments.
Fell victim to the construction of a dam such as the shrine of Hussain 90 kilometers south of Aswan dedicated to the god, unfortunately, some temples could not be saved because they were built of stone. soft or low.CONTINUE
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