Costly Colossi
Photograph
Costly Colossi
Threatened Temples of the Nile
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 9/16 × 6 3/8 in. (24.3 × 16.2 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0362
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Nile Temple) 9/62 20) COSTLY COLOSSI: Looming behind the tents of \ Egyptian High Dam construction workers, these colossal \ figures decorate the Great Temple of Ramses II. Engineers \ estimate that it would cost over $60 million to save it \ and the sister Temple of Nefertari by cutting them free \ from the cliffs and raising them above water level with \ huge jacks. \ Credit: René Burri © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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