Moving the Ancient Egyptian Temples of Abu Simbel in 1968 | Rare Archival Footage | Ancient Architects

Abu Simbel is one of the most recognisable ancient sites in Egypt, if not the world but many people don’t know that this enigmatic structure built by Pharaoh Ramesses II in 1244 BC, was dismantled, cut into blocks and moved stone by stone to a new location in the 1960s.