when they heard that 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. Then they used powerful cranes to lift the blocks to the top of a high cliff where they rebuilt the temple and 30 statues.