Unit 23 Rescuing the temple

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Unit 23 Rescuing the temple
Welcome
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E g y p t

• Egypt is famous for its Pyramid
• but today we are not going to talk about Pyramid.
• Egypt

And what then Please go with me
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The River Nile

• The River Nile used to flood large areas at the
  same time every year and destroyed houses and
  crops. So people thought of building a dam to
  control the waters.

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The Aswan Dam

• The Aswan Dam is very important to Egypt. It
  controls the water of River Nile. It also
  produces 20-50 of the electricity Egypt needs.
  But there are also some problems. As a result of
  the dam the water level of the lake rose by 63
  meters. The temple around Aswan is

In danger
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The temple in danger

• One of the most important temple in danger was at
  Abu Simbel. This is the temple of King Rameses
  the second. The temple is very old --- it is
  about 3000 years old. At last, the engineers
  decided to move the temple stone by stone and
  rebuild it above the water level of the new lake.

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Rescuing the temple

• The project was successfully completed in 1966.
  Today you can either

to Abu Simbel or you can
take a boat..
There by the waters of the new lake, you can see
the tall stone figures and visit the temple of
the Gods,
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That's all. Thank you
Goodbye