Swedish Rescuers

Swedish Rescuers

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Swedish Rescuers

Threatened Temples of the Nile


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 1/2 in. (16.1 × 24.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0363
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Nile Temples) 9/62 21) SWEDISH RESCUERS: Studying ways to raise the \ temples above water, Swedish engineers take preliminary \ tests of pressure inside the rocks in one of the side \ chambers of the Great Temple. Here grain was stored \ 3500 years ago. \ Credit: René Burri © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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