Spanning across two north African countries - southern Egypt and northern Sudan - is the vast reservoir of Lake Nasser ... such as the temples of Kalabsha and Wadi es-Sebua, some sites such ...

For the temples of Ramses II, time was short; Lake Nasser was filling up fast. In November 1963, workers using wire saws started slicing them up. More than a thousand blocks, each weighing some 30 ...