The Engineers Who Moved Abu Simbel Piece by Piece (Part 3 of 3)

Engineers reassembled a three-thousand-year-old temple with a margin of error of a fifth of an inch. Discover how the Great Temple was reconstructed on an artificial hill and whether the solar alignment survived the move. This final part explores the project completion and its lasting impact. 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 3 of 3: "Abu Simbel" Watch the full series:    • Abu Simbel: Full Documentary Series   Previous: Part 2, Abu Simbel Rescue: Lifting the Face of Ramses II (Part 2 of 3) -    • Abu Simbel Rescue: Lifting the Face of Ram...   CHAPTERS 0:00 Reassembling a Thousand Pieces 0:54 Building the Concrete Domes 2:27 Restoring the Colossi 4:36 The Solar Alignment Test 7:02 Completion and International Donations 9:46 The Human Cost of Success 11:18 The Legacy of Abu Simbel 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: Per-Olow Anderson (1967), public domain, 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: Rüdiger Stehn, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA / cropped to 16:9 Plate: Lepsius, Denkmaeler (1849), New York Public Library, public domain / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Gargan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0 / cropped to 16:9 Photo: UNESCO / Rex Keating, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Manfred Niermann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA / cropped to 16:9 Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Denise Chan, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Photo: Dalia Farid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / cropped to 16:9 Archive images are shown with slow pan and zoom. Licenses: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... #documentary #history #truestory