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The two rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel (the Great Temple of Ramesses II and the Small Temple of his wife Nefertari) are situated on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt. As a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, the ancient temple complex was dismantled and relocated, stone by stone, to a new site 210 metres further inland and 65 metres higher up by UNESCO and a multi-national team of archaeologists.
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