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...best. Just last month Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would shake the hand of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi only if it were "not booby-trapped." Last week relations got worse when five Libyan air-force men flew their American-built C-130 military cargo plane to Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and requested political asylum...
...beast that inevitably draws attention. From the lime green railings to the Abu Simbel-like entry way to the porthole-like windows on the side of an expansive brick wall, it is not just a museum, it is an architect's work...
...Hall. She also contributed heavily to the restoration of Monet's magnificent gardens at Giverny, to the renovation of Boscobel, an early 19th century Federal mansion not far from her home in suburban New York, and to the massive efforts to save the ancient Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel. Meticulously organized and attentive even to small details, she believed, "Beauty is medicine...
...other archaeological rescue of such magnitude had been attempted since UNESCO's raising of the Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel in 1966 to protect it from the floodwaters of the Aswan dam. Consultants from a variety of disciplines, from architecture to soil mechanics, concluded that halfway measures would no longer do; a major rebuilding had to be undertaken. To arrest the "stone cancer," as experts call it, the temple's entire middle section was removed, a job comparable to taking out the center of a layer cake without causing a collapse. With the help of a computer contributed...
DIED. Kazimierz Michalowski, 79, Polish archaeologist who headed an international team that dismantled, and then reconstructed on higher ground the magnificent Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel in order to save them from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s; of unannounced causes; in Warsaw. A leading Egyptologist for 50 years, Michalowski worked on the reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari in 1961; he also unearthed the tomb of Thutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings...