Everything you need to know about the Temple of Dendur, where guests at Monday's Met Gala will dine and celebrate.

For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nile, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river. In an ...

Pharaoh of Egypt, had his slaves cut a magnificent temple out of a sandstone cliff ... of muddy water backed up by the High Dam being built at Aswan 180 miles downstream. Up the Cliff.

Its preservation is a result of Spain's assistance in protecting the ancient sites of Abu Simbel from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. The temple's decorative motifs ...

The Great Temple, fronted by four colossal 21-metre statues of Ramses ... In 1959, this magnificent relic risked annihilation. Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture ...

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan ... Dam was built between 1960 and 1970. Prior to ...