Threatened Temple
Photograph
Threatened Temple
Threatened Temples of the Nile
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/2 × 10 3/8 in. (16.5 × 26.3 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0361
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: is fast fading. \ (Nile Temples) 9/62 19) THREATENED TEMPLE: One of the Russian engineers \ working on the Aswan High Dam surveys diversion canal sites \ before the Great Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, nnow in \ danger of being inundated by the Dam waters. \ Credit: René Burri © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
