a series of travel images from Africa, Egypt, Abu Simbel. Abu Simbel is a village lying some 230 km southwest of Aswan close to the Sudanese border. In 1960 the construction of the Aswan Dam was started. The temples at Abu Simbel were formerly located further down the hillside, facing the Nile. Due to the rising waters of Lake Nasser, the original locations are now underwater. In the 1960's, each temple was carefully sawed into numbered stone cubes, moved uphill, and reassembled before the water rose. In a massive archaeological rescue plan sponsored by UNESCO and the National Geographic Society the complex of temples where thus saved. The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramses II.