FILE - In this photo taken on Dec. 1, 1965, a large interior pillar is lifted by crane after it had been cut free during the massive international operation to save the ancient Abu Simbel temples from ...

Since 1250 B.C., the seated colossi of Abu Simbel have stared fixedly across the Nile and the Nubian desert toward the rising sun. By 1970, they will continue their vigil from the top of the sandstone ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In August 1817 Italian engineer Giovanni Belzoni found a way to clear away the huge amounts of sand ...

When I was planning my itinerary to Egypt, the stops in Luxor, Aswan, and Cairo all seemed like obvious musts. Cairo was the Pyramids, Luxor was the New Kingdom, Aswan was the later, most complete ...

Slowly, but very surely, Bermudian Robyn Skinner is trekking across the world. Here in her latest report for The Royal Gazette, she reports from Egypt. Next Stop: The most southern city in Egypt: ...

FILE - In this file photo taken on Feb. 8, 1966, the results of three-years of dismantling the temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt lie in a storage area behind the huge escarpment before being moved and re ...

TURIN, Italy (AP) - Egyptologists and other experts gathered in Italy this week to celebrate a successful campaign to save ancient Egyptian temples from being submerged by a dam project 50 years ago ...