Abu Simbel Rescue: Lifting the Face of Ramses II (Part 2 of 3)

Engineers must cut a three-thousand-year-old temple into pieces to save it from a rising lake. Learn about the international effort to rescue the temples of Abu Simbel from the Aswan High Dam. The video covers the competing engineering proposals and the complex process of dismantling the colossal statues. New stories every Tuesday and Friday. Want more on Ramses II? Listen to "Ramesses the Great" by Toby Wilkinson, free with an Audible trial: https://link.amazon/B035aeHjc Support the channel on Patreon:   / toofartoreturn   As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Part 2 of 3: "Abu Simbel" Watch the full series:    • Abu Simbel: Full Documentary Series   Previous: Part 1, Abu Simbel: The Pharaoh’s Solar Machine (Part 1 of 3) -    • Abu Simbel: The Pharaoh’s Solar Machine (P...   Next: Part 3, The Engineers Who Moved Abu Simbel Piece by Piece (Part 3 of 3) -    • The Engineers Who Moved Abu Simbel Piece b...   CHAPTERS 0:00 Saving the Temples from a Dam 0:48 The Stakes in 1959 3:49 Proposals to UNESCO 7:44 Before the Cutting Began 10:30 Lifting the Face of Ramses II 13:18 The Last Block and the Rising Lake HOW THIS VIDEO WAS MADE Researched and written from the sources listed below. Narration uses a synthetic text-to-speech voice. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions made for illustration; they are not historical photographs or footage. Archive photographs are credited below. SOURCES "Working Together: Abu Simbel", published by UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Link: https://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/... "Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites" by Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (ed.), published by Thames and Hudson / UNESCO in 1987. Link: https://archive.org/details/templesto... "Abu Simbel", published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Link: https://www.britannica.com/place/Abu-... "Timeline of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia", published by UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Link: https://whc.unesco.org/document/6878 "Determining the Dates of the Illumination of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel and their Relation to Khoiak" by K. A. Weyburne, published by ENiM 14, pp. 261-272 in 2021. "Victory in Nubia: The Greatest Archaeological Rescue Operation of All Time", published by The UNESCO Courier in 1980. Link: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223... "Abu Simbel", published by Wikipedia. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel IMAGE CREDITS Photo: Archivio fotografico Museo Egizio (Turin), CC0 / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Goran Schildt archive / SLS, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Cover: The UNESCO Courier, October 1961, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO / Rex Keating, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO / Roque Javier Laurenza, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO / Roque Javier Laurenza, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: TII Sales (TII Group), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Zureks (retouched by JMCC1), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Frank Mason Good, Library of Congress, public domain / cropped to 16:9 Archive images are shown with slow pan and zoom. Licenses: CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... | CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #documentary #history #truestory