Word: simbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian plan ran into financial problems. It cost $70,000,000 and although the nations of the world wanted to see Abu Simbel saved, they were unwilling to give much money. UNESCO collected little over $7.5 million in three years and by March 1 of this year, pledges still fell $23 million short...
...Simbel's sheet size and its perfect integration with the Nubran landscape gives it both impact and authetic effect. The smaller statues of the facade and the has reliefs inside show a life usually absent from later Egyptian...
...same gigantic dimensions that make Abu Simbel so impressive as a monument make it almost impossible to move. Most of the other monuments threatened by the High Dass have been moved to safety with relatively little trouble and expense. Some will be taken all the way out of Egypt, as rewards by the U.A.R. for archeological aid from other . The stopped-up starch for buried raise that will be hidden permanently by the Nile has been happened only by climate, red tape and a lack of Egyptologist. But Abu Simbel presents a special case...
...effort to save it must be difficult and prohibitively expensive. The French proposed building a dam to protect it from the Aswan lake, but their plan would have required constant pumping to remove seepage from the pourous sandstone under Abu Simbel. And it would have cost at least $80 million...
Some people doubt that Abu Simbel is worth even $36 million. They argue that the temple has little artistic value and that money could be better spent preserving monuments less extensively catalogued. But the skeptics form a small minority. Drew Middleton, one of many recent last-chance visitors, observed in The New Yorker that "if either the pyramids or Abu Simbel had to be flooded ... one would flood the Pyramids...