(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Abu Simbel in Egypt.) In the 1960s this U.N. organization raised the temples of Abu Simbel up out of the way of flooding caused when the Aswan High Dam was built
The flooding and meanders of the Nile over the millennia dictated where and 
how .... a crest height of up to 67 kilometres it is reminiscent of the High Dam at 
Aswan ... at Aswan, Sudanese Nubia has no monuments of the calibre of Abu 
Simbel to... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt" [PAR] When the High Dam was built at Aswan in the 1950s, the Nile Valley of Lower .... 
An excellent introduction to the sociopolitical organization of ancient Egypt from 
..... 39 burials; and Wadi Tushka, north of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, with 19 
burials.