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: the stones were moved south of Aswan

During my travels in Europe (including Paris, London, Berlin, Turin and some few other towns) and USA (including California and New York ), I in a first time always been amazed that building nearly complete, or at least framed facades, had left their original site to be replaced in some Thousands of miles away.

Some archaeologists had not wielded the brush and screen to retrieve objects. All the schemes have existed in the 19th and 20th century: the looting, gifts, sales, sharing discoveries, etc..

This has concerned the ancient Greeks (the 2 sides of the Aegean Sea, Europe and Asia Minor), the ancient Assyria, Egypt and of course that interests us here. But Europe has also moved: portions of cloisters French and English are on the banks of the Hudson http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art http://www.metmuseum.org / works_of_art / introduction.asp? dep = 7 and http://www.metmuseum.org/cloisters/
Lors de ma dernière visite à New York c'était le déménagement du temple de Dendour qui m'avait à la fois fasciné et laissé perplexe (how much for the temple in US dollars?): http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_de_Dendour .

De retour d'Egypte, d'Assouan et du Lac Nasser, je comprends mieux ce qui s'est passé: avec des moyens colossaux et de grandes précautions des temples entiers ont été découpés et déplacés au cours des années 60 par de nombreuses nations avec la collaboration de l'UNESCO, avant la montée des eaux derrière le nouveau barrage, even later in some cases.

The temples have been raised from a few tens of meters (60 m) and following the case, left behind or moved a few miles or tens of km. Others, as well as other buildings lie under water.

Some nations have received as a thank you, the "goodies", including the Temple of Dendur.

The Nubian Museum in Aswan provides an introduction to the subject. We also visited sites:

• of Philae 7 km south of Aswan (not too far from the former dam, 5 minutes by boat to negotiate fiercely, if possible, to allocate costs more, with good 1.5 to 2 hours of on-site visit), remembering that large groups of tourists eat between 12 and 14 h
• of Kalabchah, 14 km from Aswan, near the new dam and the Egyptian-Soviet memorial (ah, the charm of concrete), also 5 minutes by boat, negotiating more difficult, because few people in the pier (but also so few people on the island), with 1 hour on site.
• for these 2 sites can organize a taxi for a negotiated number of hours
• several other sites or islands certainly have their interest between the Dam and Abu Simbel (280 km away), they are accessible by train and boat, or cruise ship. Logistics is becoming more complex and we have not seen
• Abu Simbel 3-hour drive from Aswan train or plane. Colossal outside, huge and gorgeous inside (No photo, no guide, which also allows better focus on what you see). Planning your visit optimal time? This of course depends on its arrival and departure of his train (2 per day) or de son avion. Cela dépend aussi si l'on dort dans la petite ville, ou si l'aller retour se fait dans la journée. La lumière du soleil éclaire mieux les statues de la façade du grand temple et du temple de la Reine le matin, mais peut ensuite les blanchir. L'après-midi un peu d'ombre, mais des convois sont déjà repartis, et possibilité de prolonger l'expérience avec le son et lumière (18h00 en hiver) en ressortant et entrant avec un nouveau ticket. Ah Abou Simbel en son japonais (car majorité des touristes ce soir là) mais avec des casques "gratuits" pour les autres langues, cela rajoute à l'exotisme.
• nous appréhendions un peu le "Convoy" how many machine guns, which distance between two vehicles. In fact the start, after several checks, is timed to a point, but then the traffic is very "loose" cars are rapidly advance, at 100-120 km / h on roads sometimes alteration, minibuses follow in some cases, buses then. Relatively little traffic otherwise, checkpoints at regular intervals, almost no homes.
• as they felt the distinguished guests in us, "the place of death" in our taxi, as the saying goes (right front passenger), a member with his machine gun! He spent half his time ear glued to their cell phones (which proves that the network is good)
• to sleep there, carefully select his hotel. One of the really expensive hotels is inadvisable, as pale. The Esskaleh, good class made in the Nubian and pleasant evening, not too large (at noon potential host groups)