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Dominique Roger    wikidata:Q67013607
 
Description French photographer
Date of birth 1950 / 1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Paris
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creator QS:P170,Q67013607
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Français : Le temple est submmergé par les eaux du Nil. On ne voit plus que deux façades gravées de figures immenses. On devine le haut de l'entrée. Une autre façade également gravée apparait derrière.
Depicted place Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (Q4923872), Egypt (Q79)
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Temples, Egyptology, Cultural landscapes, Preservation of monuments,
Date September 1968
date QS:P571,+1968-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
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PHOTO0000003350
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English: The International Campaign for the saving of the Nubian monuments was launched by UNESCO in 1960. Famed for its monuments, the island of Philae in the River Nile has been submerged nine months out of twelve since the first Aswan dam. The construction of the High Dam above the island has worsened the situation; not only are the monuments permanently flooded to a third of their height, but they are subject to daily fluctuations in the water level which eat away their foundations and threaten to bring them down to ruins. In May 1968. the Campaign's Executive Committee endorsed the decision taken by the U.A.R. to dismantle and re-erect the monuments on the neighbouring island of Agilkia which is sufficiently elevated to be above the maximum level of the water. Here, the Temple of Isis.
Français : Campagne internationale pour la sauvegarde des monuments de Nubie lancée par l'UNESCO en 1960. Célèbre pour ses monuments, l'ile de Philae était submergée neuf mois sur douze despuis la construction du premier barrage d'Assouan. La cons-truction du Haut Barrage, en amont del'ile, ne devait qu'aggraver la situation; les monuments plongent en permanence dans l'eau sur un tiers environ de leurhauteur et ils sont soumis à des variations quotidiennes de nivesu qui ont pour effet d'user les fondements et d'entrainer iné-vitablement l'effondrement de l'esemble. En Mai 1968, le Comité exécutif de la Campagne s'est dono associé à la décision prise par la R.A.U. pour déplacer et reconstruire les monuments sur l'ile voisine d'Agilkia, asses élevée pour toujours émerger au-dessus du niveau maximum des eaux. Ioi, le Temple d'Isis.
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