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December 10, 2010

Ancient temples highlight Egyptian lake cruise

By PAUL SCHEMM
Associated Press

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The Temple of Ramses II is illuminated at night at Abu Simbel on Lake Nasser, Egypt.

ABU SIMBEL, Egypt — In the 1960s, rising waters from a new dam threatened to submerge the temples and monuments of Nubia, the ancient home of black pharaohs in Egypt's far south. To preserve them, the antiquities were dismantled, moved and reconstructed. Today, most of the surviving monuments can only be seen from the lake created by the waters that nearly destroyed them.


 
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