One of the biggest of these temples

One of the biggest of these temples was at Abu Simbel. It was built by a pharaoh, Rameses II, about 1300 B.C. This huge temple had four statues of Rameses II in front it. Each statue was about 20 meters tall. One of the statues had lost its head many centuries 20 before. Nearby, there was a smaller temple, built for Rameses II’s wife, Queen Nefertari.
When they heard that the temple would be covered by the lake, people foam all over the temple would be covered by the lake, people from all over the world wanted to help save it. In 1963,
25 hundreds of workers from about fifty different countries began working to move it. Carefully they cut the temple and the statues into big blocks of stone. They numbered each block of stone and marked where it was in the temple or statue or statue. Then they used powerful cranes to lift the blocks to the top of a high cliff where they rebuilt the temple and 30statues.
Today visitors can go to Egypt and see the temple and statues that Rameses II built more than three thousand years ago