This article explores a workers' history of the Aswan High Dam. The workers who built the Dam refer to themselves as builders鈥攁 title that includes workers, technicians and engineers, laden with the pride of having worked on the Dam and the kind of classless society it promised to create....
Here Mark poses in front of the spectacular temple of Abu Simbel, which was actually dismantled and reassembled a few hundred feet away in 1964 to save it from the rising waters of Nile, due to the construction of the Aswan dam. Incredible! Ali Unlike the guides who are extremely educated...
when I was 26,and I was the youngest stone-cutter on the Abu Simbel worksite," says Luciano Paoli.Aged 78,he is one of the workers with first-hand experience of this international adventure:the rescue of the Ramesses II temples in Egypt from the rising waters of the Aswan Hig...