Preserving Temples
CAIRO, November 10. U.N.E.S.C.O. and Egypt yesterday agreed on an Internationally - financed 36 million-dollar scheme to save the Abu Simbel Temples from inundation. The stone temples, in Nubia, are threatened by the waters of the completed Aswan high dam on the Nile. To counter this, the temples will be cut into five-ton blocks which will be removed to higher ground where the temples will be reconstructed. The first contracts for the project, designed in Sweden, will be issued next Friday. Forty-five countries contributed to the fund to salvage the temples. There is still 7,500,000 dollars still to raise.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 24
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